Poster presentaties van alle PhD studenten gelinkt aan Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG)

Research on the spatial variation in ‘populist’ and ‘anti-establishment’ voting focuses on the role of ‘left behind places’, where these parties are particularly successful in regions that have been left behind economically or culturally. Applying this perspective to the German case, this paper examines …

Daags na de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van november 2023 publiceerde de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR) een nieuw rapport met de titel Grip. Het maatschappelijk belang van persoonlijke controle. Ook de WRR constateert dat veel burgers te maken hebben met allerlei onzekerheden. Het …

De tijd waarin wij leven kan verlammend werken. Terwijl de overheid haar greep op maatschappelijke problemen dreigt te verliezen, trekken burgers zich steeds meer terug in hun eigen gelijk. Vervreemding en polarisatie liggen op de loer. Hoe moet het verder? Het is tijd voor herwaardering van maatschappelijke …

The HARMONY project supports and enables several metropolitan areas to lead a sustainable transition to a low-carbon new mobility era. For city logistics, innovative services and developments can serve as promising solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption in metropolitan areas. …

In this chapter, we first summarise the findings from the country chapters on the multiple meanings of SA, documenting terms, translations and contrasting understandings between citizens and public officials. Second, we highlight how civil mobilisation tends to be cyclical over time and is often mediated …

Social innovation acknowledges that alternative arrangements between state, market and civil society are called for if innovations are to be sustainable. This chapter examines grassroots-led processes of social innovation in the field of poverty in Flanders, inspired by Ibrahim’s model of grassroots-led …

The climate crisis is an urgent and complex global challenge, requiring transformative action from diverse stakeholders, including governments, civil society, and grassroots movements. Conventional top-down approaches to climate governance have proven insufficient (e.g. UNFCCC, COP events), necessitating …

Implementing circular urban supply chains is a major economic transformation that can only work if significant coordination problems between the actors involved are solved.  This requires, on the one hand, the implementation of efficient urban collection technologies, where process industries collaborate …