Anthropocentrism is the belief that value is human-centered and that all other beings are means to human ends. The Oxford English Dictionary defines anthropocentrism as “regarding humankind as the central or most important element of existence”. Anthropocentrism focuses on humanistic values as opposed …

Collection of student works on campaigning for the Sustainable Development Goals

Dit is een adviesrapport dat in opdracht van Eetsalon Menzing is geschreven, om een eetsalon te kunnen verduurzamen.

The preservation of the planet our greatest interest? May a politician who is taken seriously behave as popupists sometimes do? So far from home - in China - I dream away,  thinking about Holland, but now from my new Chinese perspective. My hosts break through my train of thoughts. They are fortunately …

In The Age of Total Images, art historian Ana Peraica focuses on the belief that the shape of the planet is two-dimensional which has been reawakened in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the ways in which these ‘flat Earth’ conspiracy theories are symptomatic of post-digital image culture. …

Global climate change (CC) affects marine mammals, such as cetaceans, by exposing them to an altered marine environment. Cetaceans are indirectly influenced by CC (e.g. through their prey, warmer environment). They are indicator species, significant to marine ecosystems and one of the most endangered …

In 2015, the UN set 17 global goals, the so-called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030, “a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity”. Although these challenges are global, their impact manifests itself on a …

Life on the Brink is an unusual volume in that it allows non-­‐academic, activist voices as well as  politicians,  environmental  studies  scholars,  and  social  scientists  to  participate  in  the  argument that concerns us all, the argument about the future of our planet and of humanity. The common …

We zitten momenteel in een transitie-periode waarin we van een lineaire economie op basis van bestaande business modellen gericht op economische waarde maximalisatie toegaan naar een circulaire economie, waar business modellen streven naar waarde behoud. De volgende stap is de overgang naar een regeneratieve …

INAUGURAL LECTURE The world is in disarray. Species are extinct, climates are changing, we are becoming unhealthier. To liberate ourselves from this doom scenario we need to take care of ourselves and our environment. The solutions of former generations offer no future solace. Moreover, these caused …