For future generations to meet their needs, and to close the global inequality gap, we need to degrow. That is we need to reduce resource and energy consumption to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being (Hickel, 2020a,b). …

Even journalists and academics sometimes employ dichotomies that fall short almost immediately. An example is the prophets and wizards dichotomy. Populism with a scientific twist, which apparently makes sense and appeals to our gut feeling. A golden formula, with an implicit logical appeal to dialectics, …

De Landbouw is een belangrijke sector in Nederland in verband met de voedselvoorziening en economie. De Nederlandse melkveehouderij is een belangrijk onderdeel van de landbouw sector en staat bekend om de kwaliteit van de melk. Sinds 2022 zijn de prijzen voor krachtvoer en de melkprijs flink gestegen …

Quality of life serves a reference against which you can measure the various domains of your own life or that of other individuals, and that can change over time. This definition of the World Health Organization encompasses many elements of daily living, including features of the individual and the environment …

BACKGROUND: Dissatisfaction is being voiced with the generally used way joint flexibility problems are defined (operationalised), i.e. as a range of motion (ROM) one or more degrees lower than normative ROM of healthy subjects. Other, specifically more function-related operationalisations have been proposed. …

The second Workshop on Tradeoffs Scenarios between the Impact on Seafloor Habitats and Provisions of catch/value (WKTRADE2) was established to provide input on trade-offs aspects to the Working group on Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs (WGFBIT). As such, the workshop was tasked to: 1) demonstrate …

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive workers’ health surveillance (WHS) program on aspects of sustainable employability and cost-benefit. Methods A cluster randomized stepped wedge trial was performed in a Dutch meat processing company from february 2012 until march 2015. In total …

Aanleiding en probleemstelling: Het adequaat bepalen van de energiebehoefte is van belang om patiënten optimaal te kunnen voeden en daarmee ondervoeding en overvoeding te voorkomen. Indirecte calorimetrie is de gouden standaard voor het bepalen van de energiebehoefte. Voor een meting moeten patiënten …

Inleiding en vraagstelling: Gewrichtsspleetversmalling is een belangrijk radiologisch kenmerk van gonartrose. Gezien een relatie bestaat tussen de mate van gewrichtsspleetversmalling en de uitkomst van een knieprotheseplaatsing wordt de keuze van de behandeling hierdoor mede bepaald. De gewrichtsspleetversmalling …

In this article the authors will describe how certain non-traditional means and methods could be used to undermine a military’s capacity to respond effectively to an emerging threat. They will do so by focussing on the Netherlands and showing how some of its specific (non-military) vulnerabilities may …