Positieve Energiewijken zijn energie-efficiënte en energie-flexibele stedelijke gebieden of groepen van onderling verbonden gebouwen die netto nul broeikasgasemissies produceren en actief een jaarlijks lokaal of regionaal overschot aan hernieuwbare energie beheren. (def. JPI-Urban Europe)foto: © NOVAR …

This presentation presented 2 examples of analysing and visualisations of ClimateScan platform data. Analysing the open-source Change Adaptation Platform ClimateScan shows that surface bio filtration is the category with most uploads, which is the case in Riga (started green infrastructure around 2020) …

Vacant land can provide social and ecological benefits to cities as they are informally used by people and spontaneously populated by animals and plant-life. However, planners and policy makers often frame vacant land as ‘empty’, ‘blank’ spaces, making it difficult to acknowledge informal and more-than-human …

Due to climate change, rising temperatures lead to more extreme heat stress in urban areas. Last summer, there were poignant images of people looking for shade in cities. Trees are effective measures to provide shade and decrease the perceived temperature. However, trees cannot grow in healthy conditions …

Webinar Establishing A Positive Energy District - Legal Aspects and Challenges.This webinar is taking place as part of the European MAKING-CITY project, a large-scale demonstration project aiming at the development of new integrated strategies to address the urban energy system transformation towards …

Workshop Energieconcepten voor ErfgoedVanuit een samenwerking tussen het Erfgoedlab Hanze (kenniscentrum NoorderRuimte) en de Learning Communities Dennenoord en Urban Energy (Centre for Expertise Energy/ EnTranCe) werd voor studenten van de minor Sustainable Building Transformation (SOFE) en het project …

Stedelijke natuurversterking is bij uitstek een thema dat door de schalen heen moet worden bekeken. Van pocket park en gevelbekleding tot stedelijke groenstructuur, de biodiversiteit komt het beste tot bloei door samenhang. In het SIA-project Natuurinclusieve Gebiedsontwikkeling onderzochten vier hogescholen …

Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) or nature-based solutions (NBSs) are widely implemented to collect, store and infiltrate stormwater. The buildup of pollutants is expected in NBSs, and Dutch guidelines advise monitoring the topsoil of bio-swales every 5 years. In the Netherlands, almost every …

Urban nature enhancement is a theme that needs to be considered across different scales. From pocket parks and façade-greening to urban green infrastructure, biodiversity thrives best through connectivity.In the SIA-project, Nature-inclusive Area Development, four universities of applied sciences - Aeres …

Recent studies on urban policy responses to increasing tourism have moved beyond the physical impact of tourism to also include the way tourism is framed by social movements. This paper contributes to this line of research with a focus on frame resonance: the extent to which frames strike a responsive …