Over the past 20 years, water quality in Indonesia has deteriorated due to an increase of water pollution. Research and analysis is needed to identify pollution sources and assess contamination in Indonesian water resources. Water quality management is not yet sufficiently integrated in river basin management …

This chapter presents a conversation with Henk Ovink, first Dutch special envoy for international water affairs. Ovink works with governments, knowledge institutions, organizations such as the World Bank and the UN, the global business community as well as the civil society representatives. 'Building' …

2007, the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning took the initiative to issue the social building blocks: real estate for facilities. This has been the first attempt to deal with social real estate professionally as an asset. In 2008 the professorship of public real estate started with its first Barometer …

Uncertainty about requirements has a negative impact on project performance. In systems engineering, there is a process to assess requirements when they are transferred from client to contractor: the System Requirements Review (SRR). The aim of this process is for the contractor to decide if there is …

The Provincie Groningen wants to connect people from Municipality Leek and Groningen better with a high-quality cycle path, namely Fietsroute Plus. In the exploration phase, a route was decided and it will pass through the Hoofdstraat in Midwolde and Lettelbert, which are two villages in Municipality …

Hoofdstuk 3 in Verandering begeleiden Praktijkvoorbeeld: het gezin in een krachtenveld 3.1 Sociaal werkers in gezinnen 3.2 gezinnen in hun omgeving 3.3 Perspectieven voor verandering binnen gezinnen 3.4 De pedagogische civil society 3.5 De competenties van de sociaal werker In hoofdstuk 3 gaat …

In this paper, we describe the development of a collaborative approach to elicit and analyse service process experience as part of a project commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. We designed and deployed a model-based instrument for measuring the experiences of both the …

In aanloop naar de transformatie van de jeugdhulp heeft de ‘pedagogische civil society’ – de gezamenlijke inzet van burgers voor het grootbrengen van jeugdigen – in toenemende mate aandacht gekregen. Veel gemeenten hebben de ‘pedagogische civil society’ omarmd en vertaald in beleidsplannen en praktijkinitiatieven. …

Women and girls represent only a minority in the penitentiary system and in forensic mental health care. About 6%–10% of both prison and forensic psychiatric populations in Western countries comprise women (see for the most recent offi cial statistics in the UK w ww.gov. uk/government, in Canada w ww.statcan.gc.ca, …

In May 2018, the new Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act 2017 (Wet op de Inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten, Wiv) will enter into force. It replaces the previous 2002 Act and incorporates many reforms to the information gathering powers of the two intelligence and security services as well …