The objective of this study is to contribute towards understanding how welfare and justice discourses become apparent in institutional conversations where social workers involved in child protection have dual professional identities: that of helper and of gatekeeper. In this article we analyse a specific …

This thesis is on institutional communication, and focuses in particular on interactional processes between social workers and prospective adoptive parents in assessment procedures for adoptive parenthood. These assessments are conducted in the Netherlands by the Child Protection Board (hereafter CPB). …

Wakatobi consists of four islands, those islands are located in South-East Sulawesi, in Indonesia. It is because of its rich biodiversity important for all actors like the National Park Authority, the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), several governments and organizations …

Fire means beside direct (financial)damage often far more indirect costs caused by interruption of operations and loss in sales, market share, property and,in the worst case people can get injured or even get killed (on average around80 persons a year). Fire in buildings is clearly a disaster and for …

It has been almost fifteen years since the brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) started, and has been causing tremendous suffering for the Congolese civilians ever since; leaving millions of people dead, and causing another hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes, while …

The objective is to describe the German horse feed market and its developments and to investigate what the change in legislation means to production, packaging and marketing processes for feed manufacturers and therefore what manufacturer’s problems with the new legislation are. Furthermore it has to …

Waterschappen hebben slechte ervaringen met dijkbegrazing. Dijken werden in het verleden veelal door jongvee en melkvee begraasd met hoge begrazingsdruk, waardoor de vegetatiemat erg beschadigd werd. Over de effecten van integrale ‘natuurlijke’ dijkbegrazing, in lage dichtheden, zijn echter geen resultaten …

De knoflookpad is de laatste jaren sterk achteruitgegaan en heeft daarmee de status bedreigd op de Rode lijst gekregen. Omdat optimalisatie van de habitat tot heden nog niet tot het veiligstellen van de knoflookpad heeft geleid zijn door Natuurbalans - Limes Divergens herintroductie en bijplaatsingsprojecten …

Hoofdvraag van dit project is op welke wijze het Kadaster als adviseur kan optreden bij de ontwikkeling van Deltadijken. Specifieke aandacht gaat naar de consequenties voor eigendomsposities, grondgebruik en rechtszekerheid