How can we design and manage our urban water systems to be resilient, sustainable, circular, ecosystem-based, adaptable and inclusive, and so address the increasing demand for housing and the changing environmental and socio-economic conditions? To identify the challenges ahead, while taking stock of …

Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) are potential high-impact climate change mitigation actions towards low carbon or even climate neutral cities. This implies that the energy performance and greenhouse gas emissions of PEDs need to be assessed. To this end, an accounting methodology, metrics, supporting …

The “Age-Friendly Cities & Communities: States of the Art and Future Perspectives”publication presents contemporary, innovative, and insightful narratives, debates, and frameworks based on an international collection of papers from scholars spanning the fields of gerontology, social sciences, architecture, …

How to encourage students to choose for a future in agrifood? Not like we always did. The labor market shows an increasing shortage. The agrifood sector plays a significant role in achieving global food security and environmental sustainability. Scholars hardly realize what they can contribute to these …

Deze training is ontwikkeld en wordt grotendeels verzorgd door lector Floris Boogaard. Als lector bij het Kenniscentrum Noorderruimte doet hij praktijkgericht onderzoek naar de ruimtelijke transities die nodig zijn voor klimaatadaptatie. Floris is ook werkzaam bij het Global Centre on Adaptation en Deltares. …

Deze training is ontwikkeld en wordt grotendeels verzorgd door lector Floris Boogaard. Als lector bij het Kenniscentrum Noorderruimte doet hij praktijkgericht onderzoek naar de ruimtelijke transities die nodig zijn voor klimaatadaptatie. Floris is ook werkzaam bij het Global Centre on Adaptation en Deltares. …

The agrifood sector is crucial for achieving global food security and environmental sustainability. In the Netherlands, innovations in food technology and adjacent areas are achieved in attractive projects at Universities of Applied Sciences (UASs) in close interaction with government, industry, other …

Recent economic crises, environmental problems and social challenges have urged us to drastically change our consumption and production patterns and transform organisations to contribute to socio-technical transitions that positively impact these challenges. Therefore, sustainable development and the …

Today the awareness about anthropogenic waste and litter in the marine environment is rising. There is evidence on the threat to marine ecosystems through plastic litter, all over the world. To understand this issue better citizen science projects, help to gather data about the distribution and origins …