Providing water for livestock and crop production to a rural area in Bonaire using reverse osmosis

Water scarcity is a serious issue on many smaller islands, with population growth and the predicted impacts of climate change as driving factors. Bonaire is a small island located in the Caribbean Sea that has rural areas without grid connections to electricity and water. Agriculture, both livestock and hobby crop farming, in the Punta Blanku...

Implementing community urban agriculture in Bonaire: Developing guidelines to set up and design sustainable communal urban agriculture projects in the Caribbeans SIDS with a focus on Bonaire, by using participatory action research

Bonaire is a Caribbean Island that is part of the Dutch Kingdom. The island is currently facing serious challenges. One of the defined issues is the lack of local food production which leads to expensive fruit and vegetables in the supermarket. This results in unhealthy diets of the citizens which leads to 60% of overweighted inhabitants in...

Strategies for integrated governance of the water-energy-food nexus in Bonaire

The island of Bonaire is planning multiple sustainable transitions in the water,<br/>energy and food systems in response to numerous challenges, such as increas-<br/>ing population pressure, rising sea levels, environmental damage, high consumer<br/>prices and import dependency. The water-energy-food nexus is a relatively novel<br/>concept that...

Museo Passangrahan: Designing for the Cultural Heritage of Bonaire

In 2014, the National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management Foundation (NAAM) was commissioned by the Bonairean government (OLB) to realize a permanent museum exhibition on the ground floor of the Passanggrahan building. The exhibition is to be based on the (historic) city center of Kralendijk. Being that the realization of this...

Golfdoordringing op de kust van Bonaire tijdens een hurricane

Het eiland Bonaire, onderdeel van de benedenwindse eilanden van de Nederlandse Antillen, Hgt op de rand van de Caribbische hurricanegordel. Het risico bestaat dan ook dat het eiland getroffen wordt door een hurricane. Aangezien de westkust van het eiland weinig hoger dan het waterniveau ligt, is er in zo'n geval weinig bescherming tegen de...