The Tuntang Watershed is an important watershed in Central Java. Management of watersheds in the Tuntang stream is a priority for various parties to carry out. One of the things that threatens the sustainability of the Tuntang watershed is erosion. The erosion rate can lead to sediment accumulation and …

To enhance our understanding of forest carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation and drought impact on forest ecosystems, the availability of high-resolution annual forest growth maps based on tree-ring width (TRW) would provide a significant advancement to the field. Site-specific characteristics, …

Presentatie gehouden door Peter van der Maas, lector Duurzame Watersystemen aan hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, op het seminar over het 'aan de BAK' (Biologisch Actief Kool)-project over nieuwe sanitatie en waterhergebruik, georganiseerd door Bioclear Earth en Desah, op 13 december, Euroborg Groningen …

Deze scriptie is geschreven ten behoeve van de afsluiting van de studie Archeologie aan de Hogeschool Saxion. Het bijbehorende onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van EARTH-Integrated Archaeology en onder begeleiding van Timo Vanderhoeven en Ronald Visser. Aanleiding van het onderzoek was dat de instantie …

It seems easier to talk about the end of humanity than about giving up the internet or giving up driving. It is argued that in our developed "first" world, we now need development aid ourselves. We are “blind” at the mercy of technological “progress”, which we continue to see against our better judgement, …

It is argued that a world can exist in which man is not a plague, in which we do not take away all diversity with cheap copy-paste mass production to worship a system world that makes everything uniform everywhere and in which we wrongly believe that we are working to establish heaven on earth. Optimists …

Op 22 april is het Earth Day, een dag waarop sinds 1970 wereldwijd aandacht wordt gevraagd voor milieubescherming en duurzaamheid. Een belangrijk thema, want de aarde staat onder druk door klimaatverandering en andere milieuproblemen. In Nederland zijn er verschillende initiatieven vanuit de overheid, …

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. The importance of PCK to quality teaching is widely recognized. However, an overview of research about geography teachers’ PCK is missing. To fill this gap, we conducted a systematic …

We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finance, losses and damages, …

Do we dare to explore the hypothesis that technology shouldn't necessarily play the main role in our human future? It's time to face this discrepancy. Technology became our faith, but it is certainly not a joyful faith. With every new "solution", comes the need for new "solutions" to mitigate the previously …