This applied qualitative research was carried out in the prominent mango growing and exporting Rajshahi division in Bangladesh to findout the perception of mango farmers about GlobalGAP and the influencing factors for their participation in the trajectory which is becoming one of the main conditional …

This research aimed to find out how the Netherlands and the UAE can collaborate on seaweed production by using the Dubai Expo to bring both parties together. Seaweed brings a green solution towards the Food Security index pressures felt in the UAE now. These pressures are; water availability, oceans …

Citizen participation in local renewable energy projects is often promoted as many suppose it to be a panacea for the difficulties that are involved in the energy transition process. Quite evidently, it is not; there is a wide variety of visions, ideologies and interests related to an ‘energy transition’. …

Organisations of land managers in landscape management face the challenge of combining the need to foster bonding social capital within their member groups with the need to develop bridging social capital with other stakeholders and linking social capital with public authorities. This paper compares …

Het Rijksvastgoedbedrijf (RVB) heeft een intern ambassadeursnetwerk opgericht. Medewerkers van het RVB treden naar buiten via hun eigen netwerk om het RVB op de kaart te zetten. Voor het ambassadeursnetwerk zijn zeventien medewerkers geworven. In de praktijk blijkt dat de ambassadeurs niet naar verwachting …

Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) such as swales are designed to collect, store and infiltrate a large amount of surface runoff water during heavy rainfall. Stormwater is known to transport pollutants, such as particle-bound Potential Toxic Elements (PTE), which are known to often accumulate …

De huidige manier van boeren heeft een grote impact op het milieu. Om de negatieve invloeden op het milieu in te perken heeft het ministerie van LNV een nieuwe visie op de agrarische sector geschreven. Onderdeel van deze visie is kringlooplandbouw. Kringlooplandbouw zou de impact van de agrarische sector …

Bodemdaling door het inklinken van veen heeft grote gevolgen voor alle Nederlanders, maar agrariërs in het bijzonder. Schade aan gebouwen en infrastructuur, verlies van biodiversiteit, klimaateffecten door oxidatie van veen en toenemend overstromingsgevaar zijn allen gevolgen van het dalen van veenbodems. …

This paper reports the responses of nursing home residents who live in a psychogeriatric ward to the abstract interactive art installation ‘Morgendauw’, which was specifically designed for this study. All stakeholders were involved in designing and implementing Morgendauw. The artwork seems able to evoke …

The origins of SWOT Analysis is obfuscated in the literature. This paper fills that void and reconstructs its early development in context. The empirical basis of SWOT started in 1952 within the Lockheed’s Corporate Development Planning Department. One of its thus far unknown pioneers, Robert Franklin …