Prioritizing the Gaps: Including Equity in Bicycle Infrastructure Planning

The urgency of the climate crisis emphasizes the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a goal that cities intend to achieve by developing their cycling infrastructure. However, sustainability includes social equity, and transport has been shown to play a role in reinforcing urban inequalities. This study seeks to understand how...

A Just City: Optimizing Low Emission Zone Allocation: sing socio-demographic vulnerability to air pollution and transport poverty to identify adequate Low Emission Zone locations

To eat or not to eat: Cultured meat and its barriers ahead in transition

Conventional meat (CVM) and the related livestock industry are considered to contribute significantly to negative environmental impacts, animal suffering and threats to public health. Nevertheless, the demand for meat is still growing which is majorly due to global population growth. Lab-grown cultured meat (CM) is anticipated to be...

Sociotechnical imaginaires of green hydrogen energy storage

In order to combat the global climate crisis, our energy provision needs to be decarbonized. One of the potential methods that can help is Green Hydrogen Energy Storage (GHES). GHES is a complex technology/energy carrier combination. It comprises of a conversion process of renewable electricity to hydrogen to then be used for conversion back to...

Sharing our Sunlight: Evaluating Access to Solar Energy in Light of a Just Energy Transition

As the effects of climate change are more and more materializing around the globe it is ever more important to reduce our reliance on a fossil fuel based energy system. When coupling this to an ongoing trend of urbanization in many places across the world, the energy systems of our cities become of particular interest. However, the transition...

China’s Social Credit System: Levels of Approval of Chinese and Dutch Citizens

In 2014 the Chinese government announced implementation of a so-called ‘Social Credit System’ which should solve three existential threats China is facing: 1. instability of the financial credit sector, 2. limitations in financial services, and 3. threats of social instability. By increasing the collection and centralization of (personal) data,...

Responsible Innovation and Organisational Change

Nowadays, research and innovation sectors undergo continuous change through innovations. Innovations consist of numerous environmental, social and financial factors that need to be linked with social and moral values. Towards this direction, the Responsible Innovation (RI) concept has emerged. Although RI is an extensively researched topic,...

Designing a Just Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading System: An exploration of actions to be performed by the Municipality of Rotterdam to approach a just peer-to-peer energy trading system for the community of Bospolder-Tussendijken

The rapid development of renewable technologies has opened the opportunity for households to produce their own energy, and to either self-consume or sell it. In the Netherlands, it is projected that not less than 7 GW of solar PV capacity will be installed in 2020. Therefore, the Netherlands is expected to experience abundant energy supply from...

An Entrepreneurial Approach to Water Purification System in West Bank, Palestine

The improvement of access to clean water is considered one of the world’s major agenda issues nowadays. The agenda to improve water access is not only considering the quantity of water but also the quality of water that should be provided for the society. The problem of the water crisis is happening in many countries around the world and needs a...

Practicing Participatory Value Evaluation: Assessing the applicability of the Participatory Value Evaluation Method for public decision-making on Urban Storm Water Management in a The Hague case study.

One of the pillars of Dutch municipal decision-making is to stimulate citizen participation in agenda- setting and decision-making (VNG, 2018). Involving citizens in the allocation of the public budget for addressing specific challenges is a novel approach to participatory decision-making. This thesis examines the applicability of the...

Towards a valuable improvement of energy projects: A study into the possibilities for applying Value Sensitive Design on energy projects

Throughout the 20th century, energy has become the life blood of our society. Industries, households, and transport, they all depend on a reliable and affordable energy supply. To establish, but in case of the Netherlands mainly to sustain, a well-functioning energy supply, a great variety of projects and activities are initiated and executed....

Capability Maturity Model of Corporate Social responsibility

The development of a CSR capability maturity model to assess an organization's CSR performance, based on the actions and expectations that are given by the ISO26000 guideline. The research includes a study to view CSR as an organizational innovation, which has been established theoretically and validated through interviews. The development of...

Observation and separation of bound and free low-frequency waves in the nearshore zone

When a field of short wind waves is observed, it can be seen that a slow variation in amplitude of these waves take place. Due to this amplitude variation, waves are generated with a similar time scale as this amplitude variation. These second order waves are associated in literature with the terms as surfbeat, bound waves or forced infragravity...

Wave-focusing surfing reefs - a new concept