Conferencieboek naar aanleiding van de PlanDag 2026 in Genk (B) over het thema weerbaarheid.

Dit afstudeeronderzoek richt zich op de relatie tussen grondwaterstanden, meteorologische variabelen en de droogtestresscondities van stedelijk groen in Rotterdam. Aanleiding hiervoor is dat Nederlandse steden de afgelopen jaren steeds vaker getroffen werden door langdurige periodes van droogte, terwijl …

Purpose Country-level marketing strategies are increasingly unreliable in emerging markets, and treating nationally diverse consumers as homogeneous might be misleading. This study examines how intra-national market heterogeneity shapes consumer evaluations by comparing Chinese consumers’ product purchase …

Presentatie op de warmtetransitiedag 2026 van de Provincie Groningen, over het thema Koeling in het warmteprogramma.De presentatie gaat in op comfort en oplossingen voor woningen: airco en warmtepompen met toevoegingen.

Aletta Smits, professor in Human Centred Technology, zoomed in on human-AI interaction: how to give people autonomy and control. She introduced us to terms like recommender systems: any tool that helps you select one or more from a host of options; and decision support systems: any tool that helps you …

The research project The New Illuminators: Women in Search of Spiritual Authority and Resilience provides us with a remarkable level of access to the work of women bible journallers. In addition to questions about gender, agency and interpretation, the project demonstrates once more the enduring dynamics …

This article focusses on the rise of agrogeological soil science in the early 20th century, especially in a Dutch-imperial context, as generating a novel geobiopolitical epistemology for the governance of natural and social worlds. Specifically, this article seeks to understand the consequences of agrogeologists’ …

Worldwide, cities rely on the proper functioning of critical infrastructures (CIs) such as electricity, telecommunication, water supply and transportation. Failure of those infrastructures can lead to significant and long-lasting impacts, even far beyond the flooded areas due to cascading effects. Local …

This chapter “Sustainable City Logistics” explores how cities are transitioning toward more efficient, low-emission, and multimodal logistics systems. Traditional urban freight has long depended on vans and trucks, which, while essential, contribute significantly to congestion, emissions, and noise. …