In 2017 the municipality of Amsterdam launched a programme to combat a housing shortage and realise ambitious societal goals for 32 of its most deprived neighbourhoods. After decades of urban renewal projects, these areas still scored poorly on most socio-economic indicators. The programme aims to develop …

Trust is a foundation of social (and organizational) order and also serves as the underpinning of healthy relationships, exchanges and transactions. There is a growing concern globally that social and organizational trust is eroding, and that it has become harder for organizations to build and protect …

This document is a self-sufficient report on the graduation project about container orchestration solutions. The report contains the problem definition and analysis, context and stakeholder analysis, research and design and test of the designed solution. The project is based on current available solutions …

ADHD en reïficatie Dit proefschrift begint met een quote van de 11-jarige Sylvia, die denkt: “ADHD is net als kanker (…) maar je gaat er niet dood aan”. ADHD is zeker geen ziekte als kanker, maar een concept uit de Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), waarvan momenteel de 5e editie uit is. De DSM-5 …

This is a review of the literature on community energy. We analyze more than 250 studies that appeared in the academic literature in the period 1997-2018. We investigate the timing regarding the appearance of these studies, the geographical orientation of the research, and the journals in which the articles …

Er is de laatste tijd nogal wat geschreven over de vermeende immoraliteit van het bedrijfsleven. Naar voorbeelden hoeft men nooit lang te zoeken, het nieuws wemelt ervan: Heineken kwam recentelijk in opspraak vanwege bierverkoop in Afrika met inzet van prostituees. Een rechter oordeelde dat Deliveroo …

Cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, and there is an urgent need to make them more resilient. The Climatescan adaptation tool www.climatescan.nl is applied as an interactive tool for knowledge exchange and raising awareness on Nature-Bases Solutions (NBS) targeting young professionals …

This paper focuses on the specifics of the relationships between social entrepreneurs and local civil servants and politicians in The Netherlands. Policy frameworks for social enterprises (SE) are relatively underdeveloped here, as the central government took little initiative in policy development, …

Fast charging is seen as a means to facilitate long-distance driving for electric vehicles (EVs). As a result, roll-out planning generally takes a corridor approach. However, with higher penetration of electric vehicles in urban areas, cities contemplate whether inner-city fast chargers can be an alternative …

BACKGROUND: Consideration of older adults' quality of life (QoL) is becoming increasingly important in the evaluation, quality improvement and allocation of health and social care services. While numerous definitions and theories of QoL have been proposed, an overall synthesis of the perspective of older …