Greater New Orleans is surrounded by wetlands, the Mississippi River and two lakes. Excess rain can only be drained off with pumping systems or by evaporation due to the bowl-like shape of a large part of the city. As part of the solution to make New Orleans climate adaptive, green infrastructure has …

Sports are activities enjoyed by many across the globe, regardless of age. The existence and promotion of youth sports has often been based on various assumptions about its value and role in society. Sports participation is assumed to be fun and good and is assumed to contribute to the development of …

Introduction: Acker's description of the ideal worker as “unencumbered with caring responsibilities and ready to devote his life to his job” (Acker, 2006a, p. 69) becomes haunting when considered in the context of a global health crisis. When, on a global scale, human life became more vulnerable, care …

Wie moet leven van een bijstandsuitkering heeft het financieel gezien niet makkelijk. De precaire situatie waarin betrokkenen zitten, kan grote invloed hebben op hun welbevinden, oftewel: op hun tevredenheid over het leven (Layard, 2005; Veenhoven, 2002, in Van Echtelt, 2011). Los van beperkte financiële …

Scientific research from within and beyond academia continues to provide the justification and the knowledge for policy developments directed toward migration and integration governance. A proliferation of scholarship aims to study, pilot, and investigate the ‘best practices’ for facilitating integration, …

Background : The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is widely used to screen for psychosocial problems among adolescents. As the severity of such problems is known to be related to age and gender, screening could be improved by interpreting SDQ scale scores with age-specific and perhaps gender-specific …

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 …

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 …

Sedentair gedrag en bijbehorende gezondheidsproblemen als overgewicht zijn een mondiaal probleem (World Health Organization, 2021). Een van de manieren om deze problemen te bestrijden is de aanleg van publieke open ruimten (Giles-Corti et al., 2005). In dit onderzoek wordt antwoord gegeven op de hoofdvraag: …