Het is ongelooflijk hoe de samenleving de afgelopen 20 jaar is veranderd. De maatschappelijke uitdagingen in de zorg en het onderwijs, rondom duurzaamheid en veiligheid, in de stedelijke omgeving en op het platteland zijn enorm en ingewikkeld geworden. De maatschappij verandert dusdanig dat traditionele …

De focus van dit hoofdstuk ligt op een aantal gekozen en nodige transities van duurzame mobiliteit binnen de gegeven infrastructuur, beschikbare middelen en de openbare ruimte in een stedelijke setting. Kortom: op weg naar een modal shift in de verdichtende stad. De komende jaren vindt het een transitie …

Life on the Brink is an unusual volume in that it allows non-­‐academic, activist voices as well as  politicians,  environmental  studies  scholars,  and  social  scientists  to  participate  in  the  argument that concerns us all, the argument about the future of our planet and of humanity. The common …

Interconnecting cyber-physical systems in networks leads to the creation of cyber-physical system-of-systems. In a cyber-physical system-of-systems (CPSoS), systems communicate by exchanging and sharing data and information, which this chapter also refers to as interoperability of information. To ensure …

This chapter introduces the concept of sustainable development and the environmental sustainability of the freight transportation sector. The focus then turns to freight transportation terminals. Freight transportation terminals are crucial links in the supply chain. Given the growing awareness of environmental …

In this chapter, we propose that the democracy we wish to see out in the world is influenced by the quality of our own “inner democracies”—that is: the quality of the democracies among and between the selves or voices in the landscape of the self. We must find ways out of the I-prisons we experience …

The objective of this chapter is to provide clinicians with a clinical model of hEDS and HSD for which treatment can be optimized to the needs of the individual patient. Due to the complexity of the symptom profiles of HSD/hEDS, the international classification of functioning (ICF) will be adopted as …

Humans use metaphors in thinking. Most metaphors are visual. In processing information stimuli the mind depends partly on visual codes. Information is processed and stored through two channels: one for non-verbal information and another for verbal information. The two different areas of information in …