This report is the result of a study done at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. It is part of a bachelor thesis of the Forest- and Nature Management – Tropical Forestry Program at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. This study is the first in a series …

Van veel dierlijke producten, of producten die ingrediënten van dierlijke oorsprong bevatten die in Nederland worden geïmporteerd, is onduidelijk waar ze vandaan komen, hoe ze zijn geproduceerd en om welke hoeveelheden het gaat. Het ministerie van Economische Zaken (EZ) wil hier graag meer inzicht in …

The traditional way of educating nature management students, in which students are trained to solve relatively simple and technical problems, is no longer sufficient. Societies are changing towards a network society, which makes nature management more complex. This asks for new competences and new learning …

This book is the account of teaching practice linked to research projects, a practice that is able to create new, unexpected values in the complex patchwork of the city through experimental and strategic interventions with greenery. That the interventions involve greenery is obviously linked to the fact …

This book – Complexity and Territorial Development – tells the story of how academic staff and students at the Van Hall Larenstein university of applied sciences deal with complexity and planning in education and research. It is intended for everyone who is involved in complex projects, but in particular …

This booklet reports on experiments carried out by Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences in the context of the VALUE project. It consists of three parts. The first two chapters describe some experiments carried out in the Dutch town of Amersfoort and the students’ input and approach. This …

The present research investigates the perfect way to present a horse on a photo in order to sell it. Two studies were conducted in order to define the aspects of a good sales photo, to investigate where people look at in a photo and finally to define what potential customers consider attractive. For …