In Zeeland worden regelmatig herinrichtingsprojecten uitgevoerd in de omgeving van dijken. Hiervoor kunnen verschillende aanleidingen zijn, zoals benodigde dijkversterking, natuurherstel en gebiedsontwikkeling ten behoeve van woningbouw, economie en recreatie. Vaak gaat het om een combinatie. In deze …

Met een top-down initiatief bottom-up burgerparticipatie organiseren, kan dat? En wat is hierin de macht van sociaal werkers? Hogeschoolonderzoekers Huub Purmer en Paula Smith bekeken het in de Haarlemse Wijkfabriek.

In this chapter we present a study on the development of CSR Communication in social media of top European companies from 2012 to 2020

This research is conducted within the company context of Grosso Moda to investigate how the accuracy of digital garment simulation of suiting styles can be improved so that the product development process can replace physical samples with digital ones to improve efficiency while reducing time and costs. Suiting …

Abstract BackgroundFrailty is a syndrome that is defined as an accumulation of deficits in physical, psychological, and social domains. On a global scale, there is an urgent need to create frailty-ready healthcare systems due to the healthcare burden that frailty confers on systems and the increased …

Kenya is among the top ten avocado exporters in the world and the top exporter in Africa. There is a rising demand for good quality avocados in the domestic market in Kenya and globally. Food safety is also increasingly becoming a big concern for consumers of fresh food in local and domestic markets. …

How do (temporary) societies actually arise, bottom-up (co-creation), or top-down (organized by an elite)? In this article, both the book The Dawn of Everything (Graeber and Wengrow, 2021) and the Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 are presented to answer this queston: both forms of emerging/organizing …

Op initiatief van de gemeente Amsterdam is in 2020 een pilot transferbegeleiding van start gegaan. Hierbinnen krijgen jongeren coaching tijdens overstapmomenten in hun schoolloopbaan. De pilot is gevolgd door onderzoek en daarvan wordt in dit rapport verslag gedaan. Daarnaast wordt er onderzocht hoe …

The liveability of cities worldwide is under threat by the predicted increase in intensity and frequency of heatwaves and the absence of a clear spatial overview of where action to address this. Heat stress impairs vital urban functions (Böcker and Thorsson 2014), hits the local economy (Evers et al. …

Pavements are used everywhere, and are of a major importance in the infrastructure. However, conditions for which these pavements are designed for and built in are rapidly changing due to climate change. The trends observed in the Netherlands suggest a maximum temperature increase of 3 degrees Celsius …