Many coastal communities worldwide are facing challenges caused by increasing sea levels. However, urban development, population growth and industrialisation in low-lying delta regions persist. This includes the Netherlands and British Columbia, Canada. Both regions explore new and innovative flood risk …

Bird strikes, a risk factor in the aviation industry, are a common problem in certain states of the USA, while they are extremely rare in other states. Similarly, the seasonal distribution of bird strikes is not proportional. This situation poses an unfair situation in the aviation insurance of airline …

Connected through a screen, two classes that are an ocean apart take the same course and do the same assignments. Our course “ The Global Village” is a globally networked learning environment (Starke-Meyerring and Wilson, 2008) where students from two different universities work and learn together using …

Videoverslag van Train de Trainer, een professionaliseringsprogramma met als onderwerp 'Strategisch en conceptueel denken' ontwikkeld door Jaap van der Grinten (projectleider) en Helma Weijnand-Schut van Hogeschool Inholland. In dit internationaal georiënteerde programma, participeerden docenten van …

In May 2011, Dutch students from the honors program in geosciences of Utrecht University, led by Professor Marca Wolfensberger, engaged in an experimental-learning project in Paris, France, with a group of American students from the honors program of Columbia College, South Carolina, led by Professors …

ABSTRACT: In a global society legal systems tend to become far more intertwined than they have been so far. Transplantation of legal arrangements from one legal system to another became an increasingly important issue as a consequence of growing interdependency among...