Intercultural communication education (ICE) is often viewed as the transfer of stable knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Classroom interaction, as an important component of education, is, however, highly relational and deeply contextual. This paper proposes a novel perspective on ICE by integrating …

At the macro level, the Netherlands has become an agricultural giant thanks to its efficient, intensive farming practices. At the micro level, farmers are under pressure to make ever-larger investments and focus heavily on improving operational efficiency. This has led to a series of business decisions, …

Welcome to Sustainable Ceramics, an online publication and public research platform dedicated to exploring the complex relationships between ceramics, ecology, material innovation, and social responsibility. Bringing together essays, interviews, artistic projects, archival material, and critical reflections, …

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Seagrass meadows hold significant value for local coastal communities and many different organisms by providing essential ecosystem services. However, due to anthropogenic stressors (e.g. coastal development, eutrophication etc.) seagrass meadows have been declining rapidly worldwide. In Lake Grevelingen …

Metropolitan Cebu, the third largest agglomeration in the Philippines with a population of approximately 3 million, faces significant challenges in managing domestic wastewater and solid waste. This mismanagement has led to the pollution of its water bodies, including the Mahiga Creek and the Butuanon …

Diatoms are essential in the aquatic ecosystem, especially in estuary systems like the Scheldt Estuary, in which centric diatoms are the dominant phytoplankton and serve as an important food resource for upper trophic levels. The understanding of the population dynamics is therefore an essential element …

Presentation at the consortium meeting of the Sparkles Project

A replacement of cars with conventional internal combustion engines (ICEs) by electric vehicles (EVs) is seen by many as a means to improve local air quality, reduce dependence on fossil fuels and CO2 emissions. The market for EV is slowly developing with a growing number of (subsidized) manufacturers …