Compassionate conservation is based on the ethical position that actions taken to protect biodiversity should be guided by compassion for all sentient beings. Critics argue that there are 3 core reasons harming animals is acceptable in conservation programs: the primary purpose of conservation is biodiversity …

Martijn de Waal is a senior researcher at the lectorate of Play and Civic Media and a member of the Citizen Data Lab at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Het is the author of The City as Interface. How Digital Media Are Changing the City (2014), and the project leader of The Hackable City …

The students from three universities (Groningen, Oldenburg and the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht) were surveyed on the experience of hearing and listening in their studies. Included in the online survey were established questionnaires on hearing loss, tinnitus, hyperacusis, a subscale on …

Mittels einer Anfang 2011 durchgeführten Online-Erhebung wurden Studierende an den Universitäten Oldenburg, Groningen und der Hochschule Utrecht in Bezug auf die Hörsituation an ihrer Bildungseinrichtung befragt. Die Erhebung verfolgte das Ziel, den Anteil der Studierenden mit einer Hörbeeinträchtigung …

This chapter addresses two central questions concerning judges and gender: what is the situation of women judges in the Netherlands, and do women judge differently from men?