This paper analyses the performativity of the sociotechnical imaginaries that the online communities interested in blockchain applications (e.g., cryptocurrencies) construct through the memes they share, in the context of a crisis of truth and amid pervasive precarity. These memes adopt a subcultural …

Executive Summary - Temperatures across the Middle East region are predicted to increase by 3°C by 2050 - Warming will be felt more in cities because of the urban heat island (UHI) effect, causing heat-related health problems - City planning and management regimes are often disconnected from disaster …

NKWK: groenblauw en waterkwaliteit: Case nijmegen (met Deltares en gemeente Nijmegen)

The vast literature on accountability in the public sector (usually called ‘public accountability’originating from political science and public administration tends to emphasize the positive dimension of holding authorities to account. As formulated by one prominent scholar in the field, ‘[a]ccountability …

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We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, …

We gaan naar New Orleans waar in 2005 de orkaan Katrina aan land kwam met 1.833 doden en ruim 153 miljard dollar aan schade tot gevolg. Tussen de dijken zijn groen- blauwe oplossingen zoals raingardens aangelegd als deel van de oplossing: waterberging en infiltratie. Is New Orleans nu klaar voor een …

Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates the harmful effects of other human-mediated threats. The associated consequences are potentially severe, particularly …

Op Let's Gro 2022 hebben we via twee studentprojecten innovaties op gebied van klimaatadaptatie laten zien. Hoewel er al volop maatregelen bestaan zijn er nog steeds plekken in de stad die veel last hebben van hitte en wateroverlast en waar bestaande maatregelen niet passen of te duur zijn. Door dit …

Technology has always been a very distinctive feature of human existence. Technology is to humans what nature is to other organisms: our host. Man is nature, but through technology – humans came to stand against nature and its biodiversity; technology is now a global enterprise, advancing on a scale …