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Examining Energy Justice in Dutch Sustainability Policy using Policy Theory Analysis
(2025)Climate change is one of society’s largest challenges of the current age. To combat global warming, countries around the globe must decrease their dependency on fossil fuels and increase the efficiency of their energy use. ... -
From Waste to Fuel: Life Cycle Assessment of Utilising Used Railroad Ties through Carbonisation
(2025)Creosote-treated railroad ties represent a hazardous biomass waste stream with significant environmental and disposal challenges. In the United States, these chemically treated wood products are commonly reused, landfilled, ... -
Mapping Technological Sovereignty: A Geopolitical Approach to Domestic Capabilities and External Dependencies in Key Technologies
(2025)Technological sovereignty refers to a nation's ability to act autonomously in securing its prosperity and safety through access to critical technologies. This concept has gained increasing attention amid rising global ... -
From Global Goals to Local Governance: Analyzing SDG5's Steering Effects on Gender Transformative Governance in South India
(2025)Achieving gender equality is not just a holy grail, but a fundamental necessity that influences the well-being of every individual on the planet (Buzzanell, 2019). While all people are impacted by gender-based dynamics, ... -
Patientenperspectief op Schaarse in de Zorg: een onderzoek naar een methode om het gesprek met patienten te openen over schaarste in de zorg.
(2025)Dit adviesrapport is geschreven in opdracht van het project Zorgdilemma: Schaarste in de Zorg onder leiding van kinderarts Marije Smits. Het doel was om te onderzoeken wat een bruikbare methode zou zijn om het patiëntenperspectief ... -
The High Burden of Acute Respiratory Illness in Dutch Households with Young Children
(2025)Abstract Introduction Acute respiratory infections cause significant mortality and morbidity worldwide, specifically in young children. This observational prospective longitudinal household study examined the burden of ... -
Tracking the Rise and Fall of Riparian Vegetation: A Temporal Network Approach
(2025)Fluvial landscapes are the product of complex interactions between physical and biological processes, including hydrological fluctuations, sediments transport dynamics, and vegetation. In recent years, vegetation dynamics ... -
Learning in Transformative Research Niches: The Case of Non-Animal Methods for Thyroid Disrupting Chemicals Risk Assessment
(2025)Transformative change is increasingly recognized as essential to address complex sustainability challenges such as chemical pollution. Within this context, non-animal new approach methodologies (NAMs) offer promising ... -
Patiëntenwaarden bij Schaarste in de Zorg
(2025)Het zorgsysteem in Nederland komt steeds meer onder druk te staan. Door verschillende factoren is de zorgvraag hoger dan de beschikbare middelen, waardoor schaarste ontstaat. Prioritering van medische hulp leidt tot het ... -
Ethnic Business Organizations’ Impact on Member Turkish Business Owners for Access to Municipal Business Supports and Services
(2025)Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands continue to experience structural barriers in the labor market, despite increasing trends in migrant entrepreneurship. This study explores how Turkish entrepreneurs utilize social ... -
Creative Skills in Crisis: A Constructivist Critique of AI Replacing Creative Skills
(2025)This thesis investigates whether the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to produce creative outputs devalues human creative skills. Grounded in Christine Korsgaard’s constructivist value theory, I argue that ... -
Navigating the Public Space: A Mixed Method Study on the Walking Accessibility for People with Mobility Disabilities.
(2025)Walking is often seen as an accessible form of physical activity for everyone. However, being able to walk safely and freely in public spaces is not self-evident for everyone. People with mobility disabilities often ... -
Detecting and Responding: The Role of Youth Workers in Tackling Human Trafficking
(2025)Human trafficking remains a hidden yet urgent issue in the Netherlands, with young people particularly vulnerable to forms of criminal and sexual exploitation. While youth workers are uniquely positioned to detect and ... -
Empowerment in Grassroots Organisations: The Role of Holacracy - A Dutch Case Study
(2025)This research examines how Holacracy, a decentralised governance structure most commonly used in corporate contexts, operates within the grassroots organisation Grounded to evaluate its potential applicability to similar ... -
The moderating role of health status and gender in the relationship between perceived athletic competence and physical activity in children
(2025)Objective: To examine the moderating role of health status and gender in the relationship between perceived athletic competence (PAC) and physical activity (PA) in children. Study design: A cross-sectional, quantitative ... -
Unravelling the biodegradability of novel epibenthic ecosystem restoration structures and its effect on sediment dynamics in salt marshes
(2025)Salt marshes play an important role in carbon sequestration, habitat provision to marine life and coastal protection, but are degrading because of land use and climate change. Ecosystem engineers such as salt marsh vegetation, ...