A framework to identify and coordinate responsibilities in industrial research and innovation

This doctoral thesis investigates the concept of responsibility in the setting of industrial research and innovation (R&I). Companies have multiple responsibilities in society: profit generation for shareowners, legal and contractual liabilities, as well as socially and morally binding obligations beyond legal compliance. These...

Optimising the use of National CORS data in the context of Thailand: policy outlooks from a data ecosystem perspective

This research aims to explore policy venues to encourage the use of data from Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) at a national level or National CORS (NCORS). Thailand, among many countries, has established NCORS to observe and process the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals to improve the accuracy of positional data...

How Heritage Learns: Dutch Public Housing Heritage Evolution in Ecosystemic Perspective

How Heritage Learns explores the dynamics that come into play when public housing becomes valourised as heritage in the Netherlands and how that, in turn modulates the evolution of this protected housing. It builds on the foundation set by the thesis of Steward Brand, that buildings learn through the adaptation of their fabric to external forces...

Evaporation partitioning of forest stands: The role of forest structure

Forest evaporation (Ei) is considered the main source of water vapor at a continental scale. Its quantification has been carried out in many ecosystems worldwide, applying the classical partitioning method to differentiate among sources of water vapor. This partitioning differentiates between transpiration (Et), soil evaporation (Es), water...

Uncertainty Analysis of Phytoplankton Dynamics in Coastal Waters

There is an increasing concern about the interactions between phytoplankton and coastal ecosystems, especially on the negative effects from coastal eutrophication and phytoplankton blooms. As the key indicator of the coastal ecosystem, phytoplankton plays an important role in the whole impact-effect chain. Primary production by phytoplankton...

Tidal flat landscape formation and evolution

Tidal flat landscape formation and evolution are closely related to the biotic and abiotic processes that take place in the intertidal environments. Extensive studies have been carried out on the relevant agents such as hydrodynamics, sediment transport and the related ecosystem (vegetation and benthic communities) dynamics. However, the...

Bacterial Societies: Cooperation, Colonization, and Competition in Micro-Scale Ecosystems

In this thesis, I describe experiments aimed at understanding bacterial population dynamics in ecosystems that are spatially structured at the micro-scale. We combine microfabrication and microfluidics to create synthetic ecosystems that have a complex yet well-defined geometry and chemical composition. Bacteria that inhabit such ecosystems can...

Common Platform Dilemmas: Collective Action and the Internet of Things

Data Assimilation for Marine Ecosystem Models

In the presence of environmental issues caused by climate change and eutrophication, ecosystem models capable of providing accurate predictions are of considerable interest. Even the most advanced ecological models are not capable of reproducing reality perfectly, therefore it is essential to integrate them with the available observations. Data...