Drivers and barriers to knowledge exchange through an envisioned online platform for transdisciplinary research projects

Transdisciplinary research requires improved knowledge exchange between science and practice. Such improvements include diversifying and scaling up knowledge accessing and sharing through online platforms. We conducted twenty interviews informed by behavioral science methods to clarify the aim, components, and participants' perspectives on the...

Making sense of resilience

While resilience is a major concept in development, climate adaptation, and related do-mains, many doubts remain about how to interpret this term, its relationship with closely overlap-ping terms, or its normativity. One major view is that, while resilience originally was a descriptive concept denoting some adaptive property of ecosystems,...

Energy contribution of OFMSW (Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste) to energy-environmental sustainability in urban areas at small scale

Urban waste management is one of the most challenging issues in energy planning of medium and large cities. In addition to the traditional landfill method, many studies are investigating energy harvesting from waste, not as a panacea but as a foreseeable solution. Thermo-chemical conversion to biogas, or even bio-methane under certain...

On Effectiveness and Legitimacy of ‘Shaming’ as a Strategy for Combatting Climate Change

While states have agreed to substantial reduction of emissions in the Paris Agreement, the success of the Agreement strongly depends on the cooperation of large Multinational Corporations. Short of legal obligations, we discuss the effectiveness and moral legitimacy of voluntary approaches based on naming and shaming. We argue that...

Does deepening understanding of social-ecological systems make sense? A partial success story from the Slufter, Texel.

The Slufter is an estuary located in Texel’s North Sea dunes and protects the hinterland from flooding from the North Sea. As the multi actor environment and the diversity of values and functions associated with the Slufter are recognized, this research focuses on developing an approach for the district water board to broaden the knowledge base...

Eco-transformation of industrial parks in China

During the past three decades, China has achieved impressive economic development. However, the pollution and resource depletion that accompanied China's rapid industrialization have led to severe environmental issues, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater contamination and smog, which have turned into visible crises. In China, industrial...

A knowledge intervention to explore stakeholders’ understanding of a dynamic coastal nature reserve

As quantitative modelling can be used to build stakeholder understanding for management decisions, and can help build consensus (Stave, 2003), a system dynamics modelling study of the abiotic dynamics of an archetypical small estuary, the Slufter in the Netherlands is formulated. The model is used in combination with an analysis of stakeholders’...

A knowledge intervention to explore stakeholders’ understanding of a dynamic coastal nature reserve

As quantitative modelling can be used to build stakeholder understanding for management decisions, and can help build consensus (Stave, 2003), a system dynamics modelling study of the abiotic dynamics of an archetypical small estuary, the Slufter in the Netherlands is formulated. The model is used in combination with an analysis of stakeholders’...

Improving the performance of logistics by means of harnessing the green supply chain practices - a case study of Dutch truck Industry

Green supply chain practices have been adopted in various supply chain management context, but almost always separately and with little understanding of their influence on logistics performance. Logistics performance influences the organizational performance in the supply chain context. Logistics performance is positively impacted by supply...

The Emergence of the Sustainable Development Maturity Model

The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Over the last few years the general awareness concerning sustainability increased significantly. Also companies are making big efforts to make their processes and products more sustainable. One of the key concepts in this...

Integrated environmental management system with environmental performance evalutation across the supply chain: A systematic and balanced scorecard approach

This research has explored environmental sustainability related literature and has performed a case study analysis on a timber and building material wholesale company relating to its environmental aspects. Published work focuses on either environmental management systems (EMS) or environmental performance evaluation (EPE). The integration of...

Inter-collge cooperation as a tool for a campus environmentalization: Strengthening the cooperation project between Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

For several decades, environmental variables have been introduced to universities, either in curriculum activities or campus management. Following such trend, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), in Brazil, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), in Spain, created, throughout the 1990s, organizational structures able to coordinate environmental...