Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) stones are the major byproduct of the cherry industry and the efficient management of this biowaste can lead to achieving the food processing sustainability aimed at by the modern food industry. Despite its significant content of lipids, the valorization of cherry stone …

Coastal flood managers seek to anticipate future flood risk and as a result consider the adaptation of flood defences. Instead of crest heightening, dikes can be adapted to include hydrodynamic reducing vegetated foreshores to form a nature-based hybrid flood defence, for instance; at managed realignments. …

In this paper we describe one aspect of nature-based flood protection by foreshores in hybrid flood defences and discuss how foreshore ecosystem restoration can contribute to flood protection. Flood protection consists of flood prevention, by grey, green or hybrid defences, and flood impact reduction, …

This communication aims to provide a framework on how to integrate the concept of Circular Economy (CE) when addressing real-life urban challenges such as resource scarcity, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, waste, and high consumerism (Williams, 2019), through delivery of courses to students of various …

Pollinator biodiversity has decreased in the past decades, but urban areas have increasingly been found to serve as a refuge when compared to the surrounding intensively managed farmland. This offers an opportunity for urban pollinator conservation to play a role in the conservation of pollinators. But …

In Europe, green hydrogen and biogas/green gas are considered important renewable energy carriers, besides renewable electricity and heat. Still, incentives proceed slowly, and the feasibility of local green gas is questioned. A supply chain of decentralised green hydrogen production from locally generated …

Door de toenemende klimaatverandering worden periodes van droogte langer en valt er meer neerslag in kortere periodes. Om deze veranderingen op te vangen is Waterschap de Dommel gestart met verscheidene beekherstelprojecten die het waterbergend vermogen, de waterkwaliteit en de biodiversiteit moeten …

Het landschap heeft de afgelopen decennia veel veranderingen ondergaan. Door schaalvergroting zijn veel houtige landschapselementen verdwenen in het landschap. Houtige landschapselementen zoals: heggen, hagen, houtsingels en houtwallen leveren tal van ecosysteemdiensten. Deze diensten brengen voordelen …

In dit onderzoek is de samenwerking tussen de Hilverboeren, Staatsbosbeheer en provincie Noord-Brabant onderzocht door drie studenten van verschillende opleidingen in opdracht van het lectoraat ‘Verdienvermogen voor natuurinclusieve landbouw’ op HAS green academy. De Hilverboeren pachten grond van Staatsbosbeheer, …