In Dutch policy and at the societal level, informal caregivers are ideally seen as essential team members when creating, together with professionals, co-ordinated support plans for the persons for whom they care. However, collaboration between professionals and informal caregivers is not always effective. …

With a growing number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the road and charging infrastructure investments lagging, occupation of installed charging stations is growing and available charging points for EV drivers are becoming scarce. Installing more charging infrastructure is problematic from both a public …

The way people and organisations describe or depict nature betrays their fundamental attitude towards nature. In this PhD thesis views of nature are seen as digestions of meaningful experiences of nature in which a religious depth can be identified. This PhD thesis contains both theoretical and empirical …

The content of the book Volunteer Tourism is current and relevant in today’s tourism discussion about, citizenship, development and cosmopolitanism. The authors provide a vocabulary not only for tourism scholars but also for people interested in mobility and morality. The book frames volunteer tourism …

When a pipeline is laid on the seabed it can be exposed to hazards of ship anchors, large fishing gear or ice keels. To prevent the pipeline of being damaged, the pipeline can be trenched. Trenching is a technique where the pipeline will be buried in the seabed to a certain depth. This can either be …

What is a pop-up store and how can it be used for organisational counterspacing? The pop-up can be interpreted as a fashionable and hypermodern platform focusing on the needs of a younger generation of consumers that searches for new experiences and is prone to ad hoc decision-making. From this perspective, …

Engaging people through local initiatives: a discourse analysis on sustainable energy.Sustainable energy forms are seen as one viable answer to reduce global warming. Most countries are in fact struggling to reduce greenhouse gases emissions based on the premise that global warming is caused by man-made …

This study aims at examining the ways people communicate about energy transition, by analyzing the discourse of different stakeholders in a case of a local initiative for renewable energy. When moving from traditional to renewable energy, social acceptance of new technologies is of central importance, …

GasTerra is, als exclusieve verkoper van het gas uit de Groningse bodem, een cruciale ketenpartner in de energiesector in Nederland. Om deze strategische positie goed te kunnen vormgeven wil GasTerra de beeldvorming in de Nederlandse samenleving over gas en GasTerra analyseren. Men wil inzicht in of …

In January 2016, several newspapers reported on the sexual assault of women at Dom Square in Cologne. The aim of this study was to find out, whether the sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne in 2015 were the result of facts or framing. The scope of this research is based on 87 letters to the editor, …