Insecure tenure in Amsterdam: who rents with a temporary lease, and why? A baseline from 2015

Given that insecure leases impact negatively on ontological security and subjective well-being, and given increasing pressure on European housing markets, more insight into insecure leases is timely. In this article, we assess the occurrence of temporary leases in the city of Amsterdam in 2015, and explore the characteristics of the tenants....

Delivering change: Towards fit-for-purpose governance of adaptation to flooding and drought

This book addresses pressing challenges of policy makers, planners and project managers in the water sector to successfully implement adaptation action. It draws on case studies about water sensitive urban design (WSUD) in Australia and the Room for the River flood protection programme in the Netherlands. The book explains a procedure for...

Water Law and Organization (Dutch version)

Lecture notes in DUTCH for course CIE5500, providing a detailed overview of Dutch and European water law concerning surface and groundwater, the North Sea and the Wadden Sea, water services, flood protection, spatial planning, nature protection, water management organizations (e.g. the water boards), financing and legal protection....

Estrogens and xeno-estrogens in the aquatic environment of the Netherlands: Occurence, Potency and Biological Effects

The ‘National investigation into the occurrence and effects of estrogenic compounds in the aquatic environment’ (Dutch acronym, LOES), is a base-line study that provides a picture of the occurrence of a number of natural and synthetic estrogens in the aquatic environment as well as a view of the associated estrogenic effects in fish in surface...

The Allocation of Tasks and Competencies in Dutch Water Management: Discussions, developments and present state

This report discusses subsidiarity in Dutch water management and forms the Dutch contribution to the Water 21 Phase II report on subsidiarity. Rather than discussing the Dutch interpretations of the concept (the concept is used almost exclusively in relation to the European Union), this report discusses the substantive issue to which ...

Commissions for Environmental Impact Assessment: Their contribution to the effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment