The Amazon Basin contains some of the most biodiverse tropical forests on Earth, yet floodplain forests, despite their ecological importance, remain understudied at fine spatial scales. Rapid anthropogenic disturbances such as illegal gold mining, selective logging, and forest clearing in the Madre de …

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

Enforcement of national and international laws banning illegal tropical timber trade hinges on independent origin verification, such as with genetic or chemical wood properties. This is of particular concern in Central Africa, where illegal trade prevails. However, tracing methods have not yet consistently …

Uncertainties in the rate of sea level rise, coupled with ongoing urban expansion, are a challenge for city planners designing flood risk adaptation strategies. This study quantifies flood exposure in Rotterdam's unembanked areas from 1970 to 2150. We modelled flood hazards for 10-, 100-, and 1000-year …

The transition to a low-carbon economy is driving demand for critical raw materials (CRMs), such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements, that are essential for clean technologies. The EU's limited domestic capacity in mining and processing has created strong dependencies and supply risks due to …

This report researches the important role of meticulous route and road planning in establishing the feasibility of new potential wind farms. By focusing on a wind farm project in the southwest of France near Bordeaux, this report highlights how effective route planning significantly reduces construction …

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In Nederland en omringende landen zijn in de afgelopen jaren en decennia verschillende projecten gerealiseerd rond decentrale innovatieve concepten voor afvalwaterbehandeling en gebruik van re-genwater. Om gemeenten, waterschappen en andere belanghebbenden een rationele grondslag te bieden voor keuzes …

Halfway through the UN 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (2015–2030), the achievement of most of the proposed targets have been lagging behind, as has been confirmed in recent UN and UNESCO reports. While these reports mostly provide external features which cause the delay, this paper analyses …

Sustainability is one of the most pressing and general topics in todays (Western) society. How the world of sport is contributing to climate change and what that implies for the world of sport is stressed by e.g. Gammelsaeter & Loland (2022) and Goldblatt (2023). The perspective found in the work of …