Het maken van een ontwerp voor het buitenterrein van het nieuwe Hotel The Green bij golfbaan Spaarnwoude te Velsen-Zuid. Hierbij is zoveel mogelijk rekening gehouden met duurzaamheid, klimaatadaptatie en hergebruik van materialen.

Greater New Orleans is surrounded by wetlands, the Mississippi River and two lakes. Excess rain can only be drained off with pumping systems or by evaporation due to the bowl-like shape of a large part of the city. As part of the solution to make New Orleans climate adaptive, green infrastructure has …

Plants growing in the understory of forests are often light limited. The competition for light has over time evolved in different survival strategies, different survival strategies result in differences in traits between plant species. New findings suggest that green plants might be able to take up carbon …

"Door schaalvergroting en verstedelijking in de laatste eeuw is ongeveer 60% van de landschapselementen, waaronder watergangen, verdwenen. Tegenwoordig verdwijnen er nog steeds landschapselementen door onder meer het dempen van watergangen. Met het dempen van watergangen gaan functies verloren zoals …

In Dutch supermarkets, 80% of food products do not comply with the principles of the Dutch Dietary Guidelines. Navigating the maze of consumer choice and product interpretation in the supermarket environment is a complex process. This study investigated what (sources of) information Dutch consumers (aged …

The research described in this professional assignment identifies the bottom-up governance arrangements that enable Dutch CSAs to achieve collective land ownership in line with their principles. These arrangements are being explored in response to multidimensional agrifood system failures and recent …

The global agricultural landscape is increasingly dominated by industrial systems based on neoliberal priorities, leading to the disappearance of smallholder farmers in the EU. Conventional agriculture favours huge landholdings where fewer people are involved in the process of producing food. These trends …

Jaarlijks wordt wereldwijd 1,3 miljard ton voedsel verspilt. Om voedselverspilling tegen te gaan hebben de Verenigde Naties een overeenstemming bereikt over verantwoorde consumptie en productie, namelijk om tegen 2030 het gewicht van de voedselverspilling in de wereld per hoofd van de bevolking te halveren. …

Many nature-based solutions are seen as favourable and effective measures to increase urban resilience during more extreme weather events, by for example decrease high temperatures in summer. Since space is often scarce in urban environments, roofs have received increased attention in mitigating the …