Since 2007, a series of Innovation Camps have been organized to enable students from diverse engineering disciplines and cultural backgrounds to work in teams developing innovative concepts and products from an industrial perspective. These summer schools, titled "Conceptual Design and Development of …

This article focusses on the rise of agrogeological soil science in the early 20th century, especially in a Dutch-imperial context, as generating a novel geobiopolitical epistemology for the governance of natural and social worlds. Specifically, this article seeks to understand the consequences of agrogeologists’ …

Eco-criticism, emerging in literary studies in the 1970s, argued for a critical engagement with environmental threats beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. Today, eco-critical thinking is omnipresent. But how can students be prepared for eco-critical research, which invites interdisciplinarity, multispecies …

The transition towards a sustainable and competitive European economy requires new analytical and decision-support frameworks capable of integrating industrial innovation, environmental constraints, and policy governance. This concept note introduces a multi-level approach to understanding the role of …

Delft is een van de natste steden van Nederland. En het wordt nog natter. Maar het wordt ook droger en warmer. De Stichting Delftse Waterloop laat zien hoe Delft zich voorbereidt op die klimaatveranderingen.Dr. Floris Boogaard is onderzoeker bij het Delftse kennisinstituut Deltares en lector aan de Hanzehogeschool …

Van Groene Ambitie tot ActieVeel hbo-docenten en onderzoekers werken dagelijks aan duurzaamheid: in hun onderwijs, samen met studenten en vaak ook in praktijkgericht onderzoek. Kleine stappen kunnen al een groot verschil maken, of het nu gaat om een lesproject, een onderzoeksinitiatief of een nieuwe …

Fotopresentatie IndonesiëOp vrijdag 13 maart 2026 vindt er in Wijkcentrum Alleman in Amstelveen een Landenavond plaats die in het teken staat van Georgië en Indonesië. Details over de avond:Presentatoren: Saskia Persoon en Floris Boogaard. Onderwerpen: De avond is opgesplitst in twee delen: "Op pad in …

Recent debates in rural development suggest a growing interest in integrating landscape-based knowledge into participatory decision-making. This study contributes to this discussion by examining how landscape—understood as the interplay between human actions, natural processes, and soil systems—can be …

This chapter “Sustainable City Logistics” explores how cities are transitioning toward more efficient, low-emission, and multimodal logistics systems. Traditional urban freight has long depended on vans and trucks, which, while essential, contribute significantly to congestion, emissions, and noise. …

This paper is a call to action from researchers in the Polar Science Early Career community. This call comes from experiences held and events witnessed by early-career researchers where imbalanced power dynamics and extractive research in and with Indigenous communities persist largely unchecked. As …