Macrolitter in Groyne Fields: Short term variability & the influence of natural processes

Plastic pollution and accumulation in the riverine environment is of increasing concern. While most research focuses on microplastic contamination, the dynamics of macrolitter remain largely unknown. Large scale riverbank monitoring initiatives in the Netherlands reveal that macrolitter hotspots occur at several locations. Unfortunately, current...

Inhabiting Pollution to Address the Commodification of Nature: An analysis into Bourj Hammound Landfill, Beirut

Beirut is a catastrophically polluted place; the foul garbage piling up on the streets, high level of air pollution and rapid privatisation of green spaces are all causes of such an ill-treated palimpsest city which has quickly declined into this condition. Today Beirut relies heavily on its port, which has been conceived from the sea like its...

Turning a problem into value: The case of plastic reaching the ocean

Economies are rapidly growing. Production and consumption rates are higher than ever before. And the disposal rates are increasing with it, with the absence of any waste infrastructure that can suffice. Global pollution has turned into one of today’s biggest threats for the environment, wild life, and humans. This thesis is specifically focussed...

Separation of NOx emissions from Drilling, and Oil and Gas Extraction in the U.S. using Monthly Data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have increased unconventional oil and gas extraction from shale reserves in the U.S. in the last decade, making up more than half of total U.S. oil and gas production at present. This activity results in NOx emissions in the extraction regions that are measurable from space using the Ozone Monitoring...

Evaluating the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for he Chemical Industry: An Empirical Study

This research evaluates the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for the chemical sector across the globe. It does so by creating a regression model which incorporates five constructs (market potential, infrastructure, factor cost, governance factors and a measure of environmental stringency) to explain the variance of foreign direct investment (FDI)...

Ventilation efficiency of street canyons with intersections

When looking at domains with several building densities, the resulting average concentrations caused by traffic when unknown, are often linearised between known building densities. To verify if this assumption is correct, several cases of street canyons with intersections, are simulated using the DALESURBAN model. The traffic is represented by a...

'Living on the Edge': Water and the city of Pune

Green Living City

Tot 2040 vestigen 333.000 meer mensen in de grotere steden van Nederland. De steden zijn in trek als het gaat om huisvesting1. De ruimte hiervoor wordt echter steeds beperkter. We zien woonlocaties ontstaan op plekken waar dit voorheen niet wenselijk was. Het doel is dan ook om een goed leefklimaat te realiseren op een woonlocatie die daar, op...

Dirty cities, fresh schools

Schools have developed into institutions with more functions besides solely education. This poses new demands on school buildings. One of them is a good accessibility by car. Therefore, schools could benefit from being placed along roads with big capacities. The obvious counterpart is the risk of health. Above everything else, children should be...

Living Roads

This master thesis studies the struggles and opportunities of highways in dense populated areas. It comes up with technological solutions for the derived challenges and presents them in an integrated solution.

Remote sensing of the river Rhine plume

The data content of remote sensing (RS) images of sea surface temperature (SST) and normalized water-leaving radiance (nLw), for the year 1998, with respect to the River Rhine plume, is investigated. Questions that this study tries to answer are: is it possible to identify the plume from the available RS images, and under which conditions is...

Verwijderen van mudcuttings van de zeebodem

Tijdens het offshore boorproces naar olie en gas wordt er een boorspoeling (mud) gebruikt, die onder andere funtioneert als smeermiddel van de boorkop en als transportmedium voor de losgesneden formatie van de bodem van de put naar het boorplatform. Er bestaan verschillende soorten spoeling, de meest voorkomenden zijn de oilbased mud (OBM),...