Pressure on natural resources, unsustainable production and consumption, inequality and a growing global population lie at the base of the big challenges that people face. This chapter investigates how businesses can take responsibility in dealing with these challenges by means of frugal business model …

This article investigates the phenomenon of rebound effects in relation to a transition to a Circular Economy (CE) through qualitative inquiry. The aim is to gain insights in manifestations of rebound effects by studying the Dutch textile industry as it transitions to a circular system, and to develop …

8 Strategies for Circular Design envisions buildings as the crucible of a circular economy, where their construction, deconstruction, and maintenance are the staging grounds for a future without waste. Rethinking our building strategies redefines a building’s value, which is the worth of all the spaces, …

In september 2021 zwaait Toine Smits officieel af als lector Circular Economy and Water Resources Management bij Van Hall Larenstein in Leeuwarden en hoogleraar Sustainable Water Management aan de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen. Vanwege zijn pensioen heeft hij eerder dit jaar al afscheid genomen als …

Op 18 december 2020 werd er weer een (online) ClimateCafé georganiseerd. Deze keer met als onderwerp ' Hoe maak je plastic circulair?' met presentaties van Ramon Knoester en Floris Boogaard.

EU president Ursula von der Leyen wants Europe to tap into its inner avant-garde. In her inaugural State of the Union speech from September 16, 2020, she pledged to revive the historical Bauhaus - the experimental art school that married artistic form with functional design, founded a century ago in …

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Gastcollege voor finance studenten over het wat, waarom en hoe van duurzame ontwikkeling en de circulaire economie bij de NHL Stenden hogeschool te Emmen

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) such as blockchain have in recent years been presented as a new general-purpose technology that could underlie many aspects of social and economic life, including civics and urban governance. In an urban context, over the past few years, a number of actors have …