In steden leeft meer natuur dan bewoners beseffen, maar die verborgen biodiversiteit staat onder druk. Dit rapport presenteert de uitkomsten van een meerjarig gedragsonderzoek onder 1.134 Nederlandse stedelingen met een eigen buitenruimte. Het onderzoek combineert een enquête, interviews met ecologen, …

Tang Ping (躺平, TP), or “lying flat,” has emerged among Chinese youth as an embedded response to overwork, involution, blocked mobility, and declining confidence that sustained effort will secure adult roles and material stability. This Perspective asks what may happen when institutions and platforms …

This conceptual essay examines why Integral Sustainable Entrepreneurship (ISE) is an essential enabler for long-term value creation under conditions of ecological and societal constraints. Dominant shareholder-oriented economic models prioritize short-term financial performance and tend to overlook ecological …

Indoor service robots need perception that is robust, more privacy-friendly than RGB video, and feasible on embedded hardware. We present a camera-free 2D LiDAR object detection pipeline that encodes short-term temporal context by stacking three consecutive scans as RGB channels, yielding a compact YOLOv8n …

In deze blog staat het wetenschappelijke artikel “Post-Succession innovation in family businesses: Exploring the tension between incumbent imprinting and successor self-determination” van Ludovica Del Barone, Maria Carmela Annosi, Evelyn Micelotta, en Filomena Buonocore centraal. Het doel van het artikel …

Climate adaptation requires innovative approaches to address collaborative knowledge exchange and multidisciplinary problem solving. For over a decade, ClimateScan has provided an open-source platform to map urban resilience and existing climate adaptation solutions implemented all over the world. Apart …

This paper introduces an integrated methodology for public space design in Het Hogeland municipality, combining climate adaptation, cultural heritage, and social well-being. The approach is structured around the “Analyse – Ambition – Action” framework and incorporates four ambition levels: maintain, …

This review aimed to describe self-management interventions for burn survivors and assess their effectiveness, while also examining interventions for comparable acute onset chronic conditions - myocardial infarction (MI) and lower extremity trauma (LET) - to gain broader insights. Following PRISMA guidelines, …

This study evaluated the combined effect of vegetation and internal water storage (IWS) on evapotranspiration (ET) dynamics in bioretention mesocosms. Twelve mesocosms were arranged under outdoor summer conditions in four configurations: planted/free-drainage (PF), planted/IWS (PI), unplanted/free-drainage …

This graduation report is a comparison of settlement mitigation techniques for embankments built on soft ground in the Netherlands. The research is focused on the soft deltaic soil conditions in the Netherlands, where clay, peat, and organic clay layers can cause high settlements, slow consolidation, …