In the context of rapid global biodiversity loss, botanic gardens have adopted a novel governance role to safeguard biodiversity, while recent calls for decolonisation have urged academic institutions to address their ...

This study assessed Nature Connectedness in participants aged 10 to 12 in an eight-week Environmental Education outdoor program at five public primary schools in Chania, Crete, in Greece. Nature Connectedness was assessed ...

In this thesis I designed and built a visual analytics tool that uses a K-means algorithm. The tool was specifically built for a dataset on clients in homecare that receive homecare technologies. It was tested through a ...

In the face of climate change, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, it is crucial to address circularity within the construction sector, as it is not only a fundamental pillar of the EU economy, but also an ...

In recent years, traditional alliances such as NATO and the EU have come under pressure. Changes in global power and growing divisions within Europe raise questions about the relevance of these alliances. This research ...

This thesis investigates how art–technoscientific laboratories make alternative futures tangible by staging them as lived experiences of time. While much research on futuring concentrates on discursive visions or technological ...

Freshwater is increasingly becoming a scarce and overexploited natural resource due to rising human demand. Pressure on freshwater resources is rapidly intensifying because of climate change, population growth, and economic ...

Roughly 120 militias remain active in the East-Northern regions of the DRC, leading to massive displacement, continuous exploitation of the civilian population and surges of hate speech. With Western media often pushing ...

The Utrechtse Heuvelrug (UH) faces increasing droughts, flooding and competing water uses. The Blauwe Agenda (BA) is a multi-actor governance programme organised into 13 Building Blocks (BBs) to strengthen climate resilience, ...

This thesis develops and evaluates Automated Literature-Based Innovation Output (ALBIO), a modular, local pipeline that applies local large language models (LLMs) to extract, structure, enrich, and deduplicate innovation ...