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Bossu, Carina (author), Stagg, Adrian (author)
Open Educational Practices (OEP) have played an important role in assisting educational institutions and governments worldwide to meet their current and future educational targets in widening participation, lowering costs, improving the quality of learning and teaching and promoting social inclusion and participatory democracy. There have been...
conference paper 2018
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Allen, Nicole (author), Tarkowski, Alek (author)
conference paper 2018
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Farrow, Robert (author), Weller, Martin (author), Orr, Dominic (author)
conference paper 2018
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The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers,...
conference 2018
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Keijzer, Elisabeth (author), Verstraeten-Jochemsen, Jacco (author), Yu, Vigil (author), van Leeuwen, Sanne (author), Visschedijk, Antoon (author), de Vos-Effting, Suzanne (author)
Although the need for a more circular economy is supported by diverse people in both politics as well as in the scientific community, implementation of circular principles in reality is rarely occurring. This study shows how quantitative models can help to develop new policies for enhancing circularity in the construction sector. By means of a...
conference paper 2017
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Henrotay, C. (author), Debacker, W. (author), Steinlage, Molly (author)
Building and construction industry consumes huge quantities of materials in an unsustainable way. As a result of a linear design approach and economic model, at the end of use, but also throughout the cycle, buildings or parts of buildings are demolished and remnants treated as waste or –best case– down-cycled. This creation of waste as well as...
conference paper 2017
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Reinders, S.N. (author)
Innovation offers opportunities for modernization and development. In recent years it has become a buzzword in the world of NGO’s, IGO’s and governments in developing countries and is featured in the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals. Different types of innovation are increasingly recognized, complicating the classic notion of innovation...
conference paper 2015
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Vantorre, M. (author), Candries, M. (author), Verwilligen, J. (author)
The access policy to ports for deep-drafted ships making use of channels which are subject to waves, tides, currents, wind and other complicating factors can be based on either deterministic or probabilistic principles. ProToel is a calculation tool for determining tidal windows for marginal vessels arriving at or departing from ports located at...
conference paper 2013
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Lemmen, Christiaan (author), van Oosterom, Peter (author)
LADM is a international standard for the land administration domain. It will stimulate the development of software applications and will accelerate the implementation of proper land administration systems that will support sustainable development. The LADM covers basic information-related components of land administration (including those over...
conference paper 2013
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Griffith-Charles, Charisse (author), Lalloo, Sunil (author), Browne, Jamal (author)
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), with the assistance of the Australian government’s aid agency, AusAID, and UNHabitat, is currently working on developing regional land policy guidelines that will address the most critical land issues being faced by the countries, not the least of which is the impending impact of climate...
conference paper 2013
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Tambach, M. (author), Meijer, F. (author), Visscher, H. (author)
Dutch municipalities are faced with an ageing private housing stock, of which parts show a diversity of quality backlogs, including their energy quality. Dutch municipalities are in the process of developing a combination of communicative and economic policy instruments to seduce private homeowners to invest in their dwellings’ quality....
conference paper 2011
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Teeuw, P.G. (author), Ravesloot, C.M. (author)
Last two decades the use of plants on rooftops has grown fast. Municipalities use different arguments to initiate policies for large-scale programs for green roofs. However, there is an intriguing intertwining of two scales: building and city. To accelerate policy execution the scales should be combined, but they are not. The stakeholders, not...
conference paper 2011
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Liu, J. (author), London, K.A. (author)
Housing supply is one of important components of the housing sector. Compared with an increasingly strong housing demand, the growth rates of total housing stock in Australia have exhibited a downward trend since the end of the 1990s whilst the significant adjustments in the Australian monetary policy were being implemented. This research aims...
conference paper 2011
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Van der Kemp, K. (author)
55% of all carpenters are self-employed (zzp’er), 37% of plasterers and wall-/floor finishers is zzp’er, and 28% of the bricklayers and interpolators is zzp’er. Of all the work in the construction sector, zzp’ers now do 15%. Is there something special about these people or the construction industry and where do these characteristics originate in...
conference paper 2011
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Ashford, N.A. (author)
Scholars and professionals committed to fostering sustainable development have urged a re-examination of the curriculum and restructuring of research and teaching in institutions of higher learning. This paper begins by discussing an expansive definition of sustainable development that includes economic, environmental, and employment concerns...
conference paper 2010
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Gerritsen, A. (author), Stuiver, M. (author), Termeer, C. (author), Werkman, R. (author)
Rural regions in the Netherlands cope with the challenge of sustainable rural development in a complex network context. There is neither consensus on facts nor consensus on values about what is sustainable and what not. Literature suggests knowledge governance as a promising form of governance. It focuses on the coordinative power of knowledge...
conference paper 2010
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Kiss, B. (author), González Manchón, C. (author), Neij, L. (author)
To combat climate change, different types of initiatives and policy instruments are required to support the development and dissemination of new energy efficient technologies. What type of policy instruments shall be used is, however, not pre-determined. To advance knowledge in how to design successful policy instruments, evaluations and deep...
conference paper 2010
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Spangenberg, J.H. (author)
When analysing the relation of economic growth and sustainable development, three aspects should be distinguished: 1. The growth discourse; 2. Growth politics and a specific economic ideology; 3. The real impacts of economic growth. Ad 1: The discourse claims that the central factor for social, economic, political and environmental progress is...
conference paper 2010
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Lorek, S. (author)
Based on the analysis how the political and scientific discourses on Sustainable Consumption developed during the last two decades the paper develops the concept of Strong Sustainable Consumption Governance. Next to an emphasis that Sustainable Consumption has to consider resource consumption (including the available sink capacity of the...
conference paper 2010
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Schönherr, N. (author), Brohmann, B. (author), Fritsche, U.W. (author), Heiskanen, E. (author), Wolff, F. (author)
The development of policies to promote sustainable consumption is a growing and demanding task of today. Many different actors have to cooperate, or even integrate their strategies and portfolios from the local to the international level, and across sectors. In order to achieve effective and coherent policies, many uncertainties have to be dealt...
conference paper 2010
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