Objective We examined whether the role of maternal education in children's unhealthy snacking diet is moderated by other socio-economic indicators. Methods Participants were selected from the Amsterdam Born Children and their Development cohort, a large ongoing community-based birth cohort. Validated …

The Dutch horticulture sector has to deal with challenges related to sustainability and advancing technology. Engaging professionals and (engineering) students by working together in learning communities (LCs) is an emerging approach to respond to ‘wicked problems’. In the Greenport West-Holland there …

Concerns about the negative consequences of the excessive underpricing of the current arrangement in the initial public offering (IPO) market for the provision of entrepreneurial finance—book building—have led to research into the viability of auctions for IPO pricing and allocation. IPO firms face a trade-off …

Dit onderzoek bekijkt het Planning & Control (P&C) proces van de Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI). Er wordt hierbij gekeken naar het Planning & Control proces in samenhang met risicomanagement. De probleemstelling van dit onderzoek is: ‘’Hoe kan het huidige proces Planning & Control van DJI verbeterd …

Koning & Hartman (K&H) is een Nederlandse technologiebedrijf, gevestigd in Delft. Het bedrijf bedenkt, levert en beheert oplossingen op het gebied van telecom en industrie. Voorbeelden hiervan zijn telecommasten onderhouden en privé-netwerken leveren aan bedrijven. K&H heeft veel klanten die actief …

The Dutch conservation area Oostvaardersplassen was initiated as a rewilding project within the Netherlands’ protected area network. It came under the spotlight when management strategies and practices were criticized by scientists, conservation practitioners, and the public, from a number of perspectives …

Zuid-Afrika is een complex land met een turbulente (recente) historie. Het is ook een land met een lange gemeenschappelijke geschiedenis met Nederland. In hoeverre zijn de ontwikkelingen in de publieke sector van Zuid-Afrika vergelijkbaar met dat wat er in Nederland gebeurt? Zijn er voor het Nederlandse …

Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries by Andres Wijkman and Johan Rockström emerges from the original report of The Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth authored by Meadows and colleagues in 1972. This book demonstrates that an economy built on the …

Two key air pollutants that affect asthma are ozone and particle pollution. Studies show a direct relationship between the number of deaths and hospitalizations for asthma and increases of particulate matter in the air, including dust, soot, fly ash, diesel exhaust particles, smoke, and sulfate aerosols. …

The broad field of environmental ethics, animal welfare, animal liberation, and animal rights literature indicate that all encounters between humans and animals are ethically charged. In this article, I shall examine how environmental ethics or animal welfare/rights/liberation literature translate into …