Management Summary Litter is a social and environmental problem with undesirable consequences. Facility managers and cleaning companies of universities of applied sciences, consider indoor litter as a hot topic. Universities should take the litter issue serious. Less litter could contribute to cost …

To contribute positively to systemic transitions within local communities, architects need to be critical, reflective, far-sighted communicators. This paper presents educational practices developing adaptive, systemic and co-creative approaches within the training of architectural Masters students. It …

Since its founding in 1948, North Korea has consistently been connected to committing crimes against humanity. The non-interventionist policies that were prevalent throughout the Cold War protected it from outside intervention. Indeed, any country could do as they pleased within its borders as state-sovereignty …

Summary Social impact assessment (SIA) developed alongside EIA in the early 1970s as a mechanism to consider the social impacts of planned interventions. The early understanding tended to limit the practical application of SIA to the project level, usually within the context of regulatory frameworks, …

The increased use of instruments for assessing risks and needs in probation should lead to intervention plans that meet the criteria for effective practice. An analysis of 300 intervention plans from the Dutch probation service showed that the match between the assessed criminogenic needs and the goals …

This vademecum allows us to look at landscape in a different way. Landscape here is not considered as a static image, a picture painted by nature or designed by man. It is, instead, considered as the temporary result of social, economic and political movements, as a snapshot in the continuous interaction …

In its past, terrorism has evolved from old terrorism into new, even more catastrophic terrorism. Today, hundreds or even thousands of people can become victim from one moment to the other, through which the fear for terrorist attacks has increased a lot lately. Next to that, Europe has become much more …

The main question in this report -an advisory framework outlining the possibility of military intervention- is stated as follows: The Syrian crisis: is foreign military intervention the answer? The aim is to answer if, and when, could military intervention be an adequate and realistic answer. "What is …

Airline ground operations are subject to the conflicting demands of short turn-around times and safety requirements. They involve multiple parties, but are less regulated than airborne processes. Not surprisingly, more than a quarter of all aircraft incidents occur on the ground. These incidents lead …

Web 2.0 has empowered consumers to voice complaints with reduced costs (physical and psychological), and to share these with a multitude of other consumers on the Internet. As a public phenomenon, online complaints have a negative impact on consumers' evaluations of brands that are under attack in online …