Bijen zijn een zeer belangrijke groep omdat ze aan bestuiving van planten doen. Dit is niet alleen belangrijk in de landbouw en natuur, maar ook in steden. Verstedelijking is een van de redenen voor achteruitgang van bijen en daarom is het belangrijk om daar onderzoek naar te doen. Het doel van dit onderzoek …

Vertical urbanisation is perceived as necessary to accommodate a growing population but is associated with severe risks for human well-being. It requires a profound understanding of how archi-tectural designs can ensure visually readable and liveable environments before it has been built. How-ever, current …

Daar waar ze in oudere woonwijken steeds meer lijken te verdwijnen, zijn ze in de Korrewegwijk in Groningen nog steeds aanwezig: hoekwinkels. Tezamen met onder andere eetgelegenheden, kapsalons en sociale wijkvoorzieningen dragen ze bij aan de leefbaarheid van de wijk. Volgens David Sim (auteur Soft …

Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization and climate change are important drivers of biodiversity decline and ecosystem degradation (McKinney, 2002). Governmental inaction results in cascade effects, such as the extinction of species and the weakening of ecosystem services that citizens depend on. …

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 …

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 …

Deze inventarisatie is uitgevoerd als voorbereidend onderzoek naar de vraag: Wat voor lokale voedselinitiatieven zijn er in Groningen en wat hebben deze nodig om hun beoogde meerwaarde blijvend te kunnen realiseren en zichtbaar te maken? Deze inventarisatie op basis van literatuurstudie en interviews …

Efforts to reduce negative externalities of urban logistics vehicle movements often concentrate on two aspects; organizing logistics more efficiently in order to reduce the number of incoming vehicles in urban areas and reducing the emissions of vehicles within urban areas. The stopping practices are …

There is a lot of attention for the reduction of city logistics’ emissions. But also if city logistics’ vehicles are zero emission, the vehicles remain present in urban areas. Zero emission vehicles also occupy valuable urban space during unloading on the road and on sidewalks. Despite the spatial impact …

Urban densification is a key strategy to accommodate rapid urban population growth, but emerging evidence suggests serious risks of urban densification for individuals’ mental health. To better understand the complex pathways from urban densification to mental health, we integrated interdisciplinary …