Cities worldwide are growing at unprecedented rates, compromising their surrounding landscapes, and consuming many scarce resources. As a consequence, this will increase the compactness of cities and will also decrease the availability of urban green space. In recent years, many Dutch municipalities …

Marine spatial planning (MSP) was developed as a place-based, integrated marine governance approach to address sectoral and fragmented management issues and has seen significant evolvement over the past two decades. MSP has rapidly become the most commonly endorsed management regime for sustainable development …

New approach methodologies predicting human cardiotoxicity are of interest to support or even replace in vivo-based drug safety testing. The present study presents an in vitro–in silico approach to predict the effect of inter-individual and inter-ethnic kinetic variations in the cardiotoxicity of R- …

The EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD) requires the member states (MS) to pursue Blue Growth while ensuring good environmental status (GES) of sea areas. An ecosystem-based approach (EBA) should be used for the integration of the aims. However, the MSPD does not specify how the MS should arrange …

Zinvol ondernemen met impact en verantwoordelijkheid. Ons organisatie (en management) denken is nog steeds gericht op methoden en aanpakken die lineair en causaal zijn: deze werken niet in een complexe en sterk geïntegreerde wereld. We moeten meer toe naar systeemdenken, de problemen bekijken binnen …

Recalling that a majority of those who need assistive technology do not have access to it, and that this has a significant impact on the education, livelihood, health and well-being of individuals, and on families, communities and societies, Member States adopted a resolution on Improving access to assistive …

De gemeente Den Haag zet zich de komende jaren in voor het ontwikkelen van een Haagse placemakingaanpak. Het doel hiervan is om partijen in positie te brengen om hun eigen woon- en leefomgeving te verbeteren, waarin ze zich thuis voelen, en (informeel) eigenaar zijn van de publieke ruimte die ze gebruiken. …

Parasitoids lay their eggs in or on a host, usually another insect. During foraging, parasitoids can encounter insects that differ in terms of host suitability and quality. At one extreme end of this spectrum are non-hosts that are unsuitable for offspring development.Non-hosts are generally ignored …

Coastal and marine cultural heritage (CMCH) is at risk due to its location and its often indefinable value. As these risks are likely to intensify in the future, there is an urgent need to build CMCH resilience. We argue that the current CMCH risk management paradigm narrowly focuses on the present and …

Wat gebeurt er allemaal in de tuin en hoe krijg je mensen enthousiast om hun tuin te vergroenen? Om hier antwoord op te kunnen geven, brachten studenten in het kader van het project 'Burgerparticipatie in klimaatadaptatie' verschillende tuinbezitters in beeld. 'Mensen zijn heel betrokken bij hun tuin', …