With increase in awareness of the risks posed by climate change and increasingly severe weather events, attention has turned to the need for urgent action. While strategies to respond to flooding and drought are well-established, the effects - and effective response - to heat waves is much less understood. …

Uit een inventarisatie blijkt dat er in Noord-Nederland 56 instituten bestaan waar in georganiseerd verband muziekles wordt gegeven door 2 of meer docenten; 9 in Drenthe, 23 in Friesland en 25 in Groningen. Er bestaan uiteenlopende organisatievormen zoals kunstencentra (11), collectieven (11) privéscholen …

Dit onderzoeksrapport is opgesteld in opdracht van het havenbedrijf North Sea Port, Terneuzen. Zij beheert een groot areaal aan steigers dat onderhouden moet worden om de levensduur ervan zo lang mogelijk uit te rekken. De wens is om dit te doen via risicobeheersing om te zorgen voor een specificatie, …

Climate change with sea level rise cast a spell on spatial planning in The Netherlands, adding further unrest to the control of urban development in the north-east of Noord-Brabant. The pressure from the Randstad is felt already today in this peripheral zone, bound by the Meuse and the precautionary …

This collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples (Canadian Inuit, Norwegian Sámi, Yupiit from Alaska, and Inuit from Greenland), places, and practices in the Circumpolar North from colonial times to our post-modern era. This volume brings together fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts, …

In 2020 verscheen de eerste Stand van het Noorden, een op feiten gebaseerde analyse van de Noordelijke economie. Het document beschreef op hoofdlijnen de staat van de Noord-Nederlandse economie, de ontwikkelingen die zich afspelen in de context van het Noorden en hoe daar vanuit het Noorden op gereageerd …

The goal of this research paper is to close the research gap between product focused strategy and customer focused strategy in SME`s. The cross-border region of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany and Limburg, Netherlands is the target focus during the research. As the market is steadily evolving more …

This research examines how Dutch border retailers are responding to business opportunities from cross-border shoppers as a specific target group. Further on, it describes shopping behaviour of German cross-border shoppers in the Netherlands. Interviews about their marketing policy are conducted with …

Like a marker pen on a map, the Covid-19 pandemic drastically highlighted the persisting existence of borders that used to play an ever decreasing role in people´s perception and behavior over the last decades. Yes, inner European borders are open in normal times. Yes, people, goods, services and ideas …

In the last decade, the number of local energy initiatives (LEIs) has increased in western European countries. Although several success factors and barriers in the development of LEIs have been studied by other scholars, there has been limited scholarly interest in the overall impact of LEIs so far. …