The white rhino is a keystone species and an ecosystem engineer. Though there have been conservation efforts to protect this species, the current red list status of the white rhino is 'Nearly threatened'. The biggest threat that rhinos are facing nowadays is poaching for theirhorns. The rhino population …

What factors played a role in the decision to locate at a Dutch Science Park, and what are the differences/similarities between the different science parks considered in this research?

The increasing demand on renewable energy in the past decade resulted in the development of more windmill parks in the north-sea. The north-sea is an ideal sea for the development of offshore structures such as windmill parks due to its morphological benefits of being a shallow sea with soft soils consist …

BigAirBag® is een bedrijf in de vorm van een besloten vennootschap sinds 2004. Het bedrijf is opgericht door de toenmalige eigenaar Marcel Kraan en verkoopt al jaren met groot succes sport airbags aan skigebieden, trampolineparken, skateparken, avonturenparken en fietsparken over de hele wereld. Daarnaast …

Coral reefs have been in decline over the past decades. This has greatly increased the need for restorative measures. The islands of Saba and St. Eustatius, two special Dutch municipalities in the Dutch Caribbean, are not exempt to this decline. The Saba Conservation Foundation and St. Eustatius National …

According to myth, Rome was created more than 2,500 years ago on two hills. Romulus climbed the Palantine Hill and Remus took up position on a nearby hill, the Aventine Hill. From here, the city grew over seven hills into an unprecedented metropolis. Two millennia later, its inhabitants have barely …

Bryophytes are small, haploid, non-vascular plants, which can be divided in three distinct phyla; the mosses (Musci), the liverworts (Hepaticae) and the hornworts (Anthocerotae) (Gradstein & Melick, 1996), (Touw, Kruijer, & Stech, 2016). They are valuable indicators of environmental chance, due to the …

Het aantal genetisch zuivere Antilliaanse leguanen is aan het verminderen. Het belang om de Antilliaanse leguaan op St. Eustatius zuiver te houden, wordt zeer groot geacht. Daarom dienen oplossingen te worden geformuleerd om beperkende bedreigingen te reduceren. Om deze oplossingen te formuleren diende …

Climate change is an ongoing worldwide event with visible effects in all levels and divisions of society. Large scaled projects to counter climate change are mostly investing in industrial programmes or outsourced projects to foreign (mostly third-world) countries. The world is undergoing an urbanisation …

Tirana is the capital of Albania. A country that was completely isolated from Europe after the Second World War, as a result of the communist regime. When the communist government was dissolved in 1991, this resulted in large-scale migration. Albanians moved abroad, but also to the capital Tirana in …