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Zisopoulos, Filippos K. (author), Noll, Dominik (author), Singh, Simron J. (author), Schraven, D.F.J. (author), de Jong, Martin (author), Fath, Brian D. (author), Goerner, Sally (author), Webster, Ken (author), Fiscus, Dan (author), Ulanowicz, Robert E. (author)For many islands, the answer to the question “why a locally, self-sustaining, and regenerative economy is needed?” is clear. The struggle often lies in the “how”. Here, we argue that tools from regenerative economics, which follow an island economy-as-an-organism analogy, offer valuable and complementary insights to socio-metabolic research....journal article 2023
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Slinger, J (author)The development of the bilateral Long Term Vision for the Scheldt Estuary between 1999 and 2001 reveals that it is possible to move from a history of conflict to cooperation in just two years. A retrospective, insider perspective is used to analyse the integrated three-layer hybrid modelling at the heart of this groundbreaking agreement. We...journal article 2023
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Karana, E. (author), McQuillan, H.L. (author), Rognoli, Valentina (author), Giaccardi, Elisa (author)Introduced in 2020, the notion of living artefacts encompasses biodesign outcomes that maintain the vitality of organisms such as fungi, algae, bacteria, and plants in the use of everyday artefacts, enabling new functions, interactions, and expressions within our daily lives. This paper situates living artefacts at the intersection of the...journal article 2023
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Wijermans, Nanda (author), Scholz, G. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Heppenstall, Alison (author), Filatova, T. (author), Polhill, J. Gareth (author), Semeniuk, Christina (author), Stöppler, Frithjof (author)Agent-based models are particularly suitable to reflect the dynamics of humans, nature, and their interactions, making them a crucial approach for understanding social-ecological systems. The formalisations of human decision-making are central to resulting model behaviours. Despite awareness of the complexity of human behaviour in social...journal article 2023
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Martinez-Rabert, Eloi (author), Sloan, William T. (author), Gonzalez Cabaleiro, R. (author)Hypothesis and theory-based studies in microbial ecology have been neglected in favour of those that are descriptive and aim for data-gathering of uncultured microbial species. This tendency limits our capacity to create new mechanistic explanations of microbial community dynamics, hampering the improvement of current environmental...review 2023
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McMahon, K.S. (author), Uchendu, Chidinma (author), Fitzpatrick, Colin (author)Understanding flows of resource-rich electrical and electronic equipment throughout its life cycle is increasingly important in the development of global circular economies, reflected by heavy legislative focuses on waste prevention and resource use efficiency. This research facilitates broader material flow analysis by characterizing flows...journal article 2023
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Gaete Cruz, M. (author)Cities worldwide face multiple social and ecological challenges, such as climate change and its impacts. Adapting and transforming our urban environments is urgent to improve their resilience to uncertain scenarios. These challenges require renewed urban solutions and force us to rethink their design processes. Multiple actors are involved in...journal article 2023
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Moallemi, Enayat A. (author), Zare, Fateme (author), Hebinck, Aniek (author), Szetey, Katrina (author), Molina-Perez, Edmundo (author), Zyngier, Romy L. (author), Hadjikakou, Michalis (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Haasnoot, Marjolijn (author)Decision-making under uncertainty is important for managing human-natural systems in a changing world. A major source of uncertainty is linked to the multi-actor settings of decisions with poorly understood values, complex relationships, and conflicting management approaches. Despite general agreement across disciplines on co-producing knowledge...journal article 2023
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Timmermans, J. (author), Daniel Kissling, W. (author)Satellite remote sensing (SRS) provides huge potential for tracking progress towards conservation targets and goals, but SRS products need to be tailored towards the requirements of ecological users and policymakers. In this viewpoint article, we propose to advance SRS products with a terrestrial biodiversity focus for tracking the goals and...journal article 2023
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Gillies, Natasha (author), Martín López, Lucía Martina (author), den Ouden, O.F.C. (author), Assink, Jelle D. (author), Basille, Mathieu (author), Clay, Thomas A. (author), Clusella-Trullas, Susana (author), Joo, Rocío (author), Weimerskirch, Henri (author)The ways in which seabirds navigate over very large spatial scales remain poorly understood. While olfactory and visual information can provide guidance over short distances, their range is often limited to 100s km, far below the navigational capacity of wide-ranging animals such as albatrosses. Infrasound is a form of low-frequency sound...journal article 2023
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Gutiérrez Martínez, Jorge (author), Bezner, Maor (author), Molenkamp, A. (author), van den Bos, J.P. (author), Hofland, Bas (author), Leblanc, Philippe (author), Rella, Andrew (author), Rosenberg, Yaeli (author), Sella, Ido (author)ECOncrete®‘s Coastalock is an ecologically designed armour unit, providing an alternative and/or a complement to traditional armour layers with ecologically enhanced armouring that provides shoreline stabilization, while also creating well-defined local ecosystems that mimic natural rock pools. The 2D physical model tests performed at TU Delft...conference paper 2023
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Shisodia, A.S. (author)Urban areas generate high demand for urban areas to accommodate a broader range of functions associated with growth, given the rising rate of urbanization with more than two-thirds of the human population in 2050 projected to be city-dwellers. As a result, urban areas have been undergoing vigorous spatial, social, and ecological transitions....journal article 2023
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Noori, S. (author), Korevaar, G. (author), Stikkelman, R.M. (author), Ramirez, Andrea (author)Self-organized industrial symbiosis (IS) starts with one actor's decision to invest in a waste recovery plant and the other actors' decision to buy the recovered flow. Technical and institutional conditions of the cluster influence actors' decisions. This paper explores the emergence of IS collaborations in industrial clusters under different...journal article 2023
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Hartley, Kris (author), Schülzchen, S. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Kirchherr, J.W. (author)Transitioning from the ‘take-make-dispose’ linear production system to a circular economy can strengthen sustainability, and governments play a vital role. Recent scholarship has investigated policies for circular economy transition, but few studies take a perspective on circularity reform that spans geographies, industries, and product life...journal article 2023
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van Oorschot, Janneke (author), Sprecher, Benjamin (author), Rijken, Bart (author), Witteveen, Pieter (author), Blok, Merlijn (author), Schouten, Nico (author), van der Voet, Ester (author)Buildings are an important part of society's environmental impacts, both in the construction and in the use phase. As the energy performance of buildings improve, construction materials become more important as a cause of environmental impact. Less attention has been given to those materials. We explore, as an alternative for conventional...journal article 2023
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Miranda Xicotencatl, Brenda (author), Kleijn, René (author), van Nielen, Sander (author), Donati, Franco (author), Sprecher, Benjamin (author), Tukker, Arnold (author)Life cycle assessment (LCA) databases and software evolve. We analyzed to which extent software and evolving life cycle inventory databases affect the comparison of technology alternatives, using a comparative LCA on permanent magnets as a case study, with two selected software tools: CMLCA and Brightway LCA. We migrated the system models...journal article 2023
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Delgado Elizundia, Felix (author)Multi-renewable energy systems, which must consider emerging technologies that exploit other available renewable energy resources, have the potential to reduce the variability of current mature renewable technologies such as solar and wind, increase power availability, diversify the electricity supply, and ultimately accelerate the substitution...master thesis 2022
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van Engelshoven, Samuel (author)The river Rhine is Europe’s economic powerhouse. Without the Rhine, the Ruhr area and the port of Rotterdam wouldn’t have developed into the economically leading industrial regions they are today. The economic power of the Rhine comes forward from the ability of humans to control the river. By rectifying and canalizing the river and constructing...master thesis 2022
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Wander, Hanneke (author)The agricultural landscape in the Netherlands has changed drastically over the course of the last 70 years. After World War II, it was governmental policy that pushed the transition to intensive farming by giving out subsidies. These developments have also had an impact on the province of Friesland, where agriculture has a long history and is...master thesis 2022
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Willemsen, Marloes (author)The Dutch have complicated relationship with nature, since the land is in a constant battle against flooding. Being successful at conquering nature also showed in the increased urbanisation and management of remaining landscape. Due to globalisation, the impact of daily activities on nature remain distant. The world now has entered a so-called ...master thesis 2022