Urbanization around the world has taken a flight towards rapid, sometimes uncontrolled growth. Megacities expanded, whilst erasing the developable area and adjusting the existing landscape to artificial water and nature systems. This rampant expansion often leads to monotonous new neighborhoods, often …

In this chapter we move back in time, to when it was not an usance to base our city designs on the natural systems of water and ecology. By the end of the 1980s the dogma of separation of functions, and dividing the city in areas for working, living, leisure and traffic was slowly abandoned and especially …

Rapid changes in the urban environment due to growth puts the urban water cycle out of balance, hence, affecting other surface and subsurface processes, such as subsidence and surface water management. Subsidence of the ground is causing risk and hazard.

Door middel van huidig onderzoek is inzicht verkregen in het eetpatroon van de deelnemers van Ouderen Actief. Door de resultaten die uit dit onderzoek zijn gekomen kan de LEV groep de levensstijl van de ouderen beter monitoren. In deze studie is er een vierweeks coaching traject aangeboden voor 5 …

Past decades traditional agricultural landscapes characterized by a wide variety of grasslands, field boundaries, watercourses, and trees started to disappear. Population growth required an ever-increasing demand for food and traditional agricultural systems were converted to monocultures. With this …

Presentatie bij het Bryggen Museum te Bergen, Noorwegen

Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) represent a green chemistry alternative to utilization of common hazardous organic solvents. They were introduced by Abbott et al. [1], and were found to have a wide range of compositions and favorable properties. NADES are typically obtained by mixing hydrogen-bond …

Potato, came from south America long time ago, the tuber is grow about everywhere in the world to become the fourth worldwide crop. Its worst enemy is an oomycete, the Phytophtora infestans. This disease is responsible for millions of deaths and forced migration in Ireland during the Great Famine from …

Presentatie tijdens Infralokaal gezamenlijk met gemeente Maassluis, Building Changes/Hogeschool Amsterdam en Gebiedsmanagers en in samenwerking met Rondom GWW en RegioIngenieurs

Presentatie tijdens het 4th international River Summit