Rembang Regency is one of the regencies in Central Java that often experiences drought. Based on the results of the mapping of drought-prone areas for 2020 carried out by the Rembang Regency government, there are 63 villages spread across 14 sub-districts, 18,885 families are recorded as experiencing …

Conferentie Energy Efficiency in Historic BuildingsPresentatie: The heritage of captains on Wadden Sea islands

The die-off of the long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum in the 1980s highlighted its crucial role as a primary grazer in tropical western Atlantic coral reefs. However, natural recovery has been slow, exacerbated by a new die-off in 2022. Interest in actively restoring D. antillarum populations …

Many coastal communities worldwide are facing challenges caused by increasing sea levels. However, urban development, population growth and industrialisation in low-lying delta regions persist. This includes the Netherlands and British Columbia, Canada. Both regions explore new and innovative flood risk …

Klimaatverandering zorgt voor een stijgende zeewatertemperatuur, hierdoor veranderen de ecologische condities van mariene ecosystemen, waardoor soorten moeten migreren of zich aanpassen. Kelp is een groep bruine macro-algen, die verschillende functies vervullen binnen mariene ecosystemen (bijv. habitatvorming, …

High population growth, a lack of wastewater treatment plants and poor wastewater management are major challenges in wastewater management in Timor-Leste (East Timor). One of the approaches of the government of Timor-Leste is to separate wastewater into greywater and blackwater from domestic, commercial, …

De gemeente Vlissingen heeft ambities. Zo wil de gemeente in 2040 een hot spot zijn van delta-innovatie (Gemeente Vlissingen, 2021). Met zijn strategisch gelegen havengebied is de gemeente onderdeel van het North Sea Port district, waar onlangs een nieuwe Regio Deal voor is toegekend. Daarnaast loopt …

That coral reefs are in decline worldwide, particularly in the Caribbean, will come as no surprise. This decades-long decline has reached a potential tipping point as the weight of the effects of climate change have come decidedly to bear on the planet’s most diverse marine ecosystem. Whether coral reefs …

Tropical western Atlantic reefs have gradually shifted from being dominated by corals to being mainly covered by macroalgae. The mass-mortality of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in the 80s and the slow to non-existent recovery exacerbated this shift. Chemical cues associated with these reefs are expected …