A considerable amount of the required information in risk and emergency management is geographical, but this information does not always reach the right actors at the right time, so how can geographical information be organised in such a way that it supports risk and emergency management more effectively? …

Land use or land-use changes can trigger or generate hazards and affect the potential consequences of these hazards. Deforestation can trigger land slides, for example, and land reclamation or levee construction can increase flood hazards downstream. New dwellings in or near forests can trigger wildfires, …

This chapter discusses the concept of sensitive environments. Sensitive environments are essentially spatial and public areas like streets or school that are provided with an intelligent infrastructure that collects sensory information of users while they move and interact. Such sensitive environments …

The aim of this report is to determine whether there exists a difference in the public access to justice between several member states of the European Union. The report examines the judicial structures of three member states, along with the circumstances surrounding the access to the courts. A case study …

Korte impressie van de installatie lezing 01-06-2011 van Dr. Anne Nigten, lector Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving.

The aim of this research was to describe paddock use of horses and cattle in different densities in the salt marshes of Noord-Friesland Buitendijks. In this report is also added the ongoing discussion about grazing in salt marshes in whole Europe and it might help understanding different outcomes in …

Exposure data available to developers of earthquake loss models are often very crudely aggregated spatially, and in such cases very considerable effort can be required to refine the geographical resolution of the building stock inventory. The influence of the geographical resolution of the exposure data …

Saxion is part of the Dutch system of universities for higher vocational training and applied sciences. In this paper a case study is presented to gain more insight in spin offs of these types of universities, and their effect on the regional economy. For this purpose a database of 152 spin offs has …

Dit rapport gaat over de mogelijke inzet van groenblauwe diensten in de integrale gebiedsuitwerking Sarsven en de Banen, in de buurt van Nederweert. De kern van dit project is de waterpeilopzet ten gunste van de natuur. De volgende hypothese is getoetst: ‘Groenblauwe diensten’ is een kansrijk concept …