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.

I was invited to a meeting of the international ROLES Consortium as a guest speaker to talk about the local energy transition in The Netherlands.

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 …

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 …

In april 2022, the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA), together with the University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein, hosted a sea urchin (Diadema Antillarum) restoration workshop on Saba. During the workshop experts and representatives from the Dutch Caribbean and Jamaica came together to …

This paper elaborates on potential linkages between TNAs and NDCs. TNAs have been conducted by developing countries since 2001 as a participatory process to prioritize technologies for mitigation and adaptation within countries’ national sustainable development contexts. Around 15 years after conducting …

Growing volumes of wood are being used in construction, interior architecture, and product design, resulting in increasing amounts of wood waste. Using this waste is challenging, because it is too labor-intensive to process large volumes of uneven wood pieces that vary in geometry, quality, and origin. …

Interview - Het huidige economische model brengt ons naar de afgrond. Het moét anders. Kees Klomp komt als politicoloog de economie opschudden. “Pas als we rock bottom raken, gaan we veranderen.” Maar liever heeft hij dat we iets daarvoor al een nieuwe weg inslaan.

The massive die-off of the herbivorous sea urchin Diadema antillarum in 1983 and 1984 resulted in phase shifts on Caribbean coral reefs, where macroalgae replaced coral as the most dominant benthic group. Since then, D. antillarum recovery has been slow to non-existent on most reefs. Studying settlement …

De Vruchtenbuurt is een buurt gelegen in Den Haag. Een prachtige buurt met woningen gebouwd in de jaren 30. In de Vruchtenbuurt is de Cooperatie Duurzame Vruchtenbuurt drukbezig met het werken aan de duurzaamheidsambities van gemeente Den Haag. Zo is de Vruchtenbuurt een van de eerste buurten om woningen …