In opdracht van de VNG is onderzoek verricht naar de invloed van digitalisering en technologische ontwikkelingen op de juridische functie van gemeenten en de vraag op welke wijze hierop adequaat kan worden ingespeeld. Dit thema is zeer actueel. Technologische ontwikkelingen in de maatschappij stellen …

Food waste is a growing problem; 925 million people are living in starvation, while the total food loss worldwide could feed more than three billion people (Stop Wasting Food, n.d.). Food waste does not only impact society, it also impacts the environment; It is a waste of water, energy, and land (Engelsma, …

Legal professionals working in city and municipal government face changes in expectations about their roles within the organisation. Where in the past they mostly took on the reactive and detached role of guardians of legal quality, these days they are expected to take a more flexible, solution-oriented …

A bioaugmentation approach was used to enhance the performance of anaerobic digestion (AD) using cow manure (CM) as the substrate in a continuous system. To obtain the desirable microbial culture for bioaugmentation, a biochemical methane potential test (BMP) was used to evaluate three commonly used …

Background and aim – The aim of this paper is to look at the professionalization of municipal real estate management (MREM) from an organizational design perspective. Methods / Methodology – Analysis of current and recent MREMliterature in a Dutch context on organizational design. Results – It appears …

It is of utmost importance to collect organic waste from households as a separate waste stream. If collected separately, it could be used optimally to produce compost and biogas, it would not pollute fractions of materials that can be recovered from residual waste streams and it would not deteriorate …

The study was aimed at comparing and assessing consumer perception of three categories of yoghurt products sold in Tema, thus category A; locally produced yoghurt with local ingredients, category B; locally produced yoghurt with imported ingredients and category C; imported yoghurt. The study was analysing …

Background A psychosocial dementia care programme for challenging behaviour (DEMBASE®) was developed in collaboration with a Swedish BPSD‐registry team for in‐home care services use in Japan. The programme consisted of a web‐based tool for the continued assessment of challenging behaviours and interdisciplinary …

The Netherlands came late to 19th-century industrial revolution but when modernization occurred, it prompted an almost feverish cultural and social 'Anglomania'. Elite youngsters enthusiastically appropriated sports such as cricket and football, which were introduced and promoted by English native speaker …

The Northern Rural Growth Programme introduced butternut squash (BNS） (Cucurbita moschata) to Northern Ghana as a high-value export commodity to promote the inclusion of smallholder farmers in the export value chain. As an export vegetable crop, BNS flourished well in 2013 and 2014. However, the quality …