This essay is a contribution to the research project ‘From Prevention to Resilience’ funded by ZonMw. Motivated by the Covid-19 pandemic, this research project explored how public space and forms of civic engagement can contribute to working towards more resilient urban neighborhoods. The project engaged …

In the Dutch nursing context, work remains in strengthening the voice of nurses serving as frontline health care providers and board members alike. Conceptual clarity of Public Opinion Leadership (POL) in nursing practice is needed to provide attributes, antecedents and consequences for nurses and nurse …

Purpose Social media have become a key part of placemaking. Placemaking revolves around collaboration between multiple stakeholders, which requires ongoing two-way communication between local government and citizens. Although social media offer promising tools for local governments and public professionals …

"Military organizations tend to think about their overarching strategy in two ways: how their organization will remain relevant and which future operations they must be able to conduct. In the information era, military organizations struggle with the “design capabilities that will offer . . . credible …

What you don’t know can’t hurt you: this seems to be the current approach for responding to disinformation by public regulators across the world. Nobody is able to say with any degree of certainty what is actually going on. This is in no small part because, at present, public regulators don’t have the …

This article analyzes How do emotion norms and emotional norms (de)legitimize the EU as a security community? Conceptually, the article expands on the emotional underpinnings of a security community by distinguishing between emotion norms and emotional norms. This then allows to examine emotional (de)legitimation …

from the article: "In the Netherlands, housing corporations are increasingly adopting self-service technologies (SSTs) to support affairs their tenants need to arrange. The purpose of the study is to examine the customers’ motivations of using SSTs in the context of the Dutch public housing sector. An …

Shea tree fruits is first processed as shea kernels for sale or further processed into butter. The butter has been used over time in food, cosmetic and industrial purposes. Processing shea as an individual usually comes with a risk of poor sales at the market due to inefficiencies. To avert this and …

Nederlandse versie: Hoe staat het ervoor met de pioniersplekken die vanuit de Protestantse Kerk gestart zijn? Dit rapport geeft u een indruk. In deze tussenstand staan niet de cijfers centraal, maar zoomen we in op wat pionieren betekent in de concrete levens van mensen. We hebben onderzoek gedaan naar …

Op 29 mei 2019 heeft de Raad van State, de hoogste rechter, geoordeeld dat de stikstofaanpak niet meer voldoet aan de Europese natuurwetgeving. Dit heeft onder andere als gevolg dat bij het ontwikkelen van toekomstige bouwprojecten een ecologische beoordeling noodzakelijk is om aan te tonen dat er geen …