Environmental or ‘green' education is an important driving force behind the ‘greening' of society as it plays a critical role in raising environmental awareness and preparing students for green jobs. None of the existing environmental attitudes and behavior measures is focused on the evaluation of green …

Much research effort is invested in developing enzymatic treatments of textiles by focusing on the performance of enzymes at the laboratory scale. Despite all of this work, upgrading these developments from the laboratory scale to an industrial scale has not been very successful.Nowadays,companies are …

A lot of research effort is put in developing enzymatic treatment of textiles by focusing on the performance of enzymes on lab-scale. Despite all this work upgrading of these developments from lab-scale to industrial scale has not been really successful. Companies are nowadays confronted with rapid developments …

Energy efficiency has gained a lot of prominence in recent debates on urban sustainability and housing policy due to its potential consequences for climate change. At the local, national and also international level, there are numerous initiatives to promote energy savings and the use of renewable energy …

Facing the threat of climate change and loss of biodiversity, sustainability has become an es­sential public issue. Zoos as environmental organisations and leaders in conservation have a sustainable responsibility and could contribute to stem climate change and the exploitation of resources by reducing …

Cities need to become environmental sustainable, they have to reduce their ecological footprint by reducing waste, CO² emissions, use land sustainably and take care of the biodiversity. This research took The Hague as an example to investigate the possibilities for an urban agriculture initiative to …

In juli 2008 verscheen het rapport ‘De tijd is rijp’ van de Commissie Herziening Handhavingsstelsel (Commissie Mans). Uit dit rapport blijkt dat er nogal wat schort aan het handhavingbeleid van verschillende provincies. Daarnaast staat erin vermeld dat in Nederland momenteel ongeveer 500 instanties zich …

There has probably never been such an intense debate about the layout of the countryside as the one that is currently raging. There are serious concerns about the landscape, which is being rapidly transformed by urbanization and everything associated with this process, and not only in the Netherlands …