Cyanobacterial blooms can be toxic to humans swimming in affected waters. According to the European Bathing Water Directive bathing waters should be closed during cyanobacterial blooms. In the Netherlands, cyanobacteria monitoring in all official bathing water locations is usually performed every two …

2007, the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning took the initiative to issue the social building blocks: real estate for facilities. This has been the first attempt to deal with social real estate professionally as an asset. In 2008 the professorship of public real estate started with its first Barometer …

Nu steeds meer gemeenten hun vastgoed op orde lijken te hebben, gaat vooral het organisatorische aspect wringen. Welke competenties hebben we nodig? Hoe kunnen we de organisatie meer toekomstbestendig maken?

Presentation in a seminar on the changing funding landscape

Presentation research day Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health: background, need for community-based approaches and structure of Erasmus+ COP4HL project were presented.

Opportunities for new forms of public-private partnership in the Groningen earthquake zone

Cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change and there is an urgent need to become more resilient. This research involves the development of the City Climate Scan methodology to measure, map, scan and assess different parameters that provide insight into the vulnerability of urban areas …

Urban planners and several stakeholders in public and private sector are in need of (quickscan) tools that can assess the vulnerability to floods and thermal stress. Urban flooding and thermal stress have become key issues for many cities around the world. With the continuing effects of climate change, …