Zooplankton community turnover in response to a novel TiO₂-coated nano-formulation of carbendazim and its constituents

Novel nanomaterial-based pesticide formulations are increasingly perceived as promising aids in the transition to more efficient agricultural production systems. The current understanding of potential unintended (eco)toxicological impacts of nano-formulated pesticides is scarce, in particular with regard to (non-target) aquatic organisms and...

Changed sediment composition prevents recovery of macrobenthic community four years after a shoreface nourishment at the Holland coast

Sand nourishment is a widespread management strategy to protect sandy coasts against erosion. Nourishments can impact the benthic fauna directly by burial and indirectly by changing environmental conditions such as bottom shear stress and/or sediment composition (grain size distribution). The macrobenthic community in soft-bottom environments...

LADM patterns to support the efficient modelling of Cooperative (Community and Strata) Titles for Land Registers

In many jurisdictions sub-ownership rights can be separated from the main body of ownership. In Scotland these are referred to as separate tenements and encompass such ownership rights as minerals, salmon fishing, mines of gold and silver, and petroleum (Reid et al., 1996, pp. 168-171). The main body of ownership may be further encumbered with...

Social foresights on Covid-19 futures: developing a NLP tool for Strategic Design Research

Future sense-making is the social activity by which people give meaning to their collective experiences in crisis situations such as the outbreak of Covid-19. Enacted in conversations and narratives, sense-making is a largely cognitive activity of framing experienced situations as meaningful. It is a collaborative process of creating shared...

Supporting Adaptive Delta Management: Systematic Exploration of Community Livelihood Adaptation as Uncertainty

Long-term planning in urbanizing deltas has to deal with deep uncertainties in socio-economic development and climate change. Adaptive Delta Management (ADM) has been developed as an approach that acknowledges these and similar uncertainties. The Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 has, in principle, adopted the ADM approach, and it recognizes general...

Distributing responsibilities for climate adaptation: Examples from the water domain

It is often assumed that climate adaptation policy asks for new responsibility arrangements between central government and citizens, with citizens getting a more prominent role. This prompts the question under which conditions these new responsibility arrangements can be justified as they may raise serious ethical concerns. Without paying due...

River basin management and community: the Great Ouse Basin, 1850–present

River basins are difficult units to manage. Society is generally not organized on the basis of river basins, yet river basins are important units for society and vice versa. This paper discusses the development and effectiveness of river basin management, using the Great Ouse Basin in the east of England as an example. Because of conflicting...

Teaching academic staffers’ performance contracting and community service for innovation and academic development in kenya

Performance contracts can be made to work, but there are numerous pitfalls along the way which can punish innovation, success and can erect complex barriers to effective implementation. Performance contracting has largely been considered as the remedy to the quality of service delivery in public universities in Kenya. Performance is the extend...