Presentatie van openings-keynote op deze vijfde ClimateExistence conferentie in Zweden

A dike has been punctured to allow limited tidal waterflows into an agricultural landscape near the village of De Heen in the west of Brabant Province. A transition towards a brackish agriculture will be supported by a saline visitor center that is embedded in the water flows surrounded by new crops, …

How to encourage students to choose for a future in agrifood? Not like we always did. The labor market shows an increasing shortage. The agrifood sector plays a significant role in achieving global food security and environmental sustainability. Scholars hardly realize what they can contribute to these …

How art can help us in finding connections to the more-than-human world?

Ammonia is heavily used in agriculture as a fertilizer and in industry as a raw material for the production of various organic nitrogen compounds. Its high hydrogen content and its established infrastructure for both storage and distribution makes ammonia a prominent candidate for storing fluctuating …

In deze aflevering gaan lector Ruimtelijke Transformaties – Water Floris Boogaard, langs de as van techniek en lector Art & Sustainability Jan van Boeckel, langs de as van kunst met elkaar in gesprek over klimaatadaptatie. Onder leiding van host Dorothea van der Meulen beantwoorden ze vragen als: Wat …

The Northern Netherlands is like many delta’s prone to a wide range of climate change effects. Given the region its long history with floods and adaptation, there are numerous initiatives to be found that tried to battle these effects. As part of the Climate Adaptation Week Groningen, an inventory was …

Fysieke kleiworkshop in het Wageningse Arboretum met 40 studenten, tezamen met prof. Arjen Wals. op uitnodiging van Wageningen University (vak ECS 31806)Vooraf presenteerde ik een lezing, getiteld 'The Earth is breathing us'.