Land use or land-use changes can trigger or generate hazards and affect the potential consequences of these hazards. Deforestation can trigger land slides, for example, and land reclamation or levee construction can increase flood hazards downstream. New dwellings in or near forests can trigger wildfires, …

Fire means beside direct (financial)damage often far more indirect costs caused by interruption of operations and loss in sales, market share, property and,in the worst case people can get injured or even get killed (on average around80 persons a year). Fire in buildings is clearly a disaster and for …

Waterschappen hebben slechte ervaringen met dijkbegrazing. Dijken werden in het verleden veelal door jongvee en melkvee begraasd met hoge begrazingsdruk, waardoor de vegetatiemat erg beschadigd werd. Over de effecten van integrale ‘natuurlijke’ dijkbegrazing, in lage dichtheden, zijn echter geen resultaten …

Niet aangeboren hersenletsel is een aandoening waar veel muziektherapeuten mee te maken hebben. Mensen komen na een CVA of hersentumor, maar ook na ongeval of ziekten als Alzheimer en Parkinson met hersenletsel terecht in een revalidatiecentrum of verpleeghuis. Deze patiënten worden met tal van klachten …

It is historically a fact that Turkey experiences frequent earthquakes, on the order of one damaging earthquake of magnitude 6–7 approximately every 2 years, causing extensive losses to economy, life and limb. Every strong earthquake leaves behind poverty and tens of thousands of homeless people. In …

Exposure data available to developers of earthquake loss models are often very crudely aggregated spatially, and in such cases very considerable effort can be required to refine the geographical resolution of the building stock inventory. The influence of the geographical resolution of the exposure data …

The studies reported on in this thesis addressed the development of sucking patterns in preterm newborns. Preterm infants often have problems learning to suckle at the breast or to drink from a bottle. It is unclear whether this is due to their preterm birth or whether it is the consequence of neurological …

This report explores the yachting sector of SXM, which to this day does not receive enough government attention and is not given the recognition that it deserves as a lucrative sector of the economy (Johnson, 2010). Therefore, the decision to research this topic came as a result of the Tourism Bureau's …