Cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, and there is an urgent need to make them more resilient. The Climatescan adaptation tool www.climatescan.nl is applied as an interactive tool for knowledge exchange and raising awareness on Nature-Bases Solutions (NBS) targeting young professionals …

#actiononwater event in Hoogeveen op Wereld Waterdag. In samenwerking met projectpartners Waterschap Drents Overijsselse Delta en Gemeente Hoogeveen, met hulp van de IVN (die een groot deel van het programma hebben vormgegeven) een actie met een lokale basisschool georganiseerd. Doel van deze dag was …

Agrobiodiversity has been decreasing substantially in Europe. Social scientific research in this area has paid limited attention to how citizens value agrobiodiversity and its decline, and how these valuations can be influenced. We explore the influence of different arguments for enhancing agro-biodiversity, …

In this chapter, the authors elaborate on serious games and playful interactions in modern scientific practices, and on the way they can engender mutual scientific growth. They use a research-through-design approach, in which three possible scenarios and prototypes are studied to envisage the new role …

Citizen science – the active participation of lay people in research – may yield crucial local knowledge and increase research capacity. Recently, there is growing interest to understand benefits for citizen scientists themselves. We studied the perceived impacts of participation in a public health citizen …

Een buurt gezond maken én houden is niet eenvoudig. Je hebt er veel kennis voor nodig over de gezondheid, de behoeften, de gewoontes en de ideeën van bewoners. Ook moet je weten hoe gezond de leefomgeving is én wat daaraan verbeterd kan worden. Hoe staat het met de kwaliteit van de huizen, is er genoeg …

In the Netherlands and Europe, there exist approaches to refugee (re)settlement where asylum seekers face long waiting periods, in large-scale centres often isolated from Dutch society, with little-to-no opportunity to structure their day or participate in activities which bring meaning to their lives. …