Most world governments are concerned with waste disposal. The large accumulation of these waste items is causing environmental and monetary issues. According to (Awuchi, 2019), the predicted average daily production of plastic waste is 15.4 billion pieces. Plastic waste is the most prevalent form of …

Seaweed-based solutions can offer a valuable contribution in addressing today’s challenges such as climate change, food availability and finding alternatives to fossil-based value chains. To achieve this, the European seaweed sector needs to scale-up, and devise smart solutions to make the production …

Strategy, the link between mission and operational plans to improve an institution’s performance, is a critical element to the future success of higher education (HE). Hoshin Kanri (HK), the application of Lean principles and practices to strategy development, deployment, and management, is a systematic …

Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel’s goal is to become the most sustainable hotel of Europe in 2025 (currently renovating) to achieve this, a change management plan must be implemented to go through the transition of creating a green culture throughout the entire value chain.

The research described in this professional assignment identifies the bottom-up governance arrangements that enable Dutch CSAs to achieve collective land ownership in line with their principles. These arrangements are being explored in response to multidimensional agrifood system failures and recent …

The global agricultural landscape is increasingly dominated by industrial systems based on neoliberal priorities, leading to the disappearance of smallholder farmers in the EU. Conventional agriculture favours huge landholdings where fewer people are involved in the process of producing food. These trends …

Conducting large calculations manually with pen and paper following prescribed procedures or algorithms has been diminishing in significance for some time. In most cultures, and for many years already, individuals employ digital instruments for such computational tasks, when confronted with them in daily …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading has been recognized as an important technology to increase the local self-consumption of photovoltaics in the local energy system. Different auction mechanisms and bidding strategies haven been investigated in previous studies. However, there has been no comparatively …

This ESHA’s quality cards series HEADstart - also in Dutch - aims to help school heads with useful professional tips on how to develop and become better leaders of their teams. This guide explores how school leaders can foster collective self-efficacy among teachers to improve student learning. Research …

For older adults, acute hospitalization is a high-risk event with poor health outcomes, including functional decline. In absence of practical guidelines and high quality randomized controlled trials, this Delphi study was conducted. The aim of this study was to obtain consensus on an exercise intervention …