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Ghijs, Anna (author)Since the financial crisis of 2007, construction companies in the Netherlands have seen shrinking profit margins, due to for instance project and process success criteria that have been extended beyond economic objectives to include environmental and social requirements, increasing stakeholder requirements, disrupted supply chains due to global...master thesis 2023
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Medina Pena, N.J. (author), Sanchez, Arlex (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author)Disasters triggered by natural hazards are becoming more frequent and more intense, causing damage to infrastructure and causing loss of life. One way to reduce disaster risk is by evacuating the hazardous area. However, despite the amount of literature that exists on evacuation behavior, there is still a lack of agreement on which variables...journal article 2023
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Jones, Keith (author), Mulder, Femke (author), Morga, Mariantonietta (author), Wanigarathna, Nadeeshani (author)Background and aim - Improving the resilience of business organisations and critical infrastructure providers to disaster events is a major challenge facing many European organisations. Recent floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and earthquakes in Iceland, Italy, Romania and Greece have demonstrated the need for organisations to adopt...conference paper 2022
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Kräussl, Zsofia (author), Baida, Ziv (author), Post, Suzanne (author), Rukanova, B.D. (author), Tan, Y. (author)Circular Economy (CE) and sustainability are getting high on the political agenda of governments on the global level. Businesses and supply chains are at the heart of that transition, and need to make big steps in the coming years for making the transition from a linear model of make-use-dispose towards a circular model. For this transition,...conference paper 2022
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Meng, M. (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author)The need to respond to increasing flood risk, climate change, and rapid urban development has shaped innovative policies and practices of spatial planning in many countries over recent decades. As an instrumental–technical intervention, planning is mainly used to improve the physical environment (through concepts such as regulating waterproof...book chapter 2022
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Kabyl, Almat (author), Yang, M. (author), Shah, Dhawal (author), Ahmad, Arshad (author)Oil spills are environmental pollution events that occur due to natural disasters or human activities, resulting in a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon release in the environment, especially into the marine ecosystem. Once oil spills happen, they cause detrimental consequences to the environment, living organisms, and humans. Although there are...journal article 2022
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Biersteker, Erwin (author), van Marrewijk, A.H. (author), Koppenjan, Joop (author)Recently, scholars have called for a focus on subjective aspects of risk management as a suitable lens for understanding how it functions. In line with this lens, this study focuses on project actors’ viewpoints on risk management in the context of construction projects to provide novel insights in risk management. Drawing on Renn's model and...journal article 2022
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Iuorio, Luca (author), Bortolotti, A. (author)The relation between the design of the flood protection infrastructure and the design of the urbanscape is the focus of this paper with the question on how these two types of design can consciously affect each other. The text presents the preliminary result of an interdisciplinary research conducted by a team of urban designers and hydraulic...conference paper 2021
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Mantzouka, Athanasia (author)Due to the inherent complexity and innovative character of construction projects, the role of risk management has become increasingly crucial. Dealing with the multifaceted risks associated with international construction projects is important in order not only to make sure that the project objectives are secured but also to make profit. It is...master thesis 2019
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Janetzky, Alex (author)The construction sector has rather poorly developed organisational learning capabilities (Styhre, Josephson, & Knauseder, 2004) and this results in lessons not being learned and applied in future projects. Lessons learned form the intellectual assets of an organisation and can help to reduce project risks (Carrillo, Ruikar, & Fuller,...master thesis 2019
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Leung, Ranee (author)There are several prevailing issues regarding major altered states of extreme weather events. For instance, storm surges, sea-level rise, and droughts have all resulted in many regions left with critical systems and interdependencies exposed. The impact and risk of modern disasters have caused substantial adverse socio-economic impacts by...master thesis 2019
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Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author), Voortman, H.G. (author), Klerk, W.J. (author), van Vuren, S. (author)This article highlights recent developments in flood risk management in the Netherlands and presents approaches for reliability analysis and asset management for flood defences and hydraulic infrastructure. The functioning of this infrastructure is of great importance for the country as large parts of it are prone to flooding. Based on a...journal article 2018
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Santosa, A.R.M. (author)The Netherlands which means “lowlands”, constitutes an area of approximately 41,528 km2. Almost half of those areas are below the sea level. Today, more than 2,400 kilometres of dikes shields the sunken-flat land. Regular safety assessment of the dikes are constantly conducted, and the evaluation determines whether planning or dike...master thesis 2017
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Oikonomou, G. (author)Large enterprises and governments shift their long-running and critical operations to run in cloud environments. The on-demand business-critical workloads raise important challenges in datacenter operation, requiring efficient online scheduling of workloads with unprecendented dynamic behavior, yet under strict service level agreements (SLAs)....master thesis 2016
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De Jongh, J.B. (author)Since the 1990’s Dutch municipalities successfully invested in land development, which turned into a profitable undertaking (Groetelaers, 2013). Municipalities that invested a lot in land development formerly could rely on future profits from a booming housing market. The impact of the financial crisis on the land and housing markets changed...master thesis 2016
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Verkerke, A.T. (author)Participation in cyberspace is of key importance for large organisations (and the functioning of our society), but to participate responsibly a comprehensive cyber approach is needed. Cyberspace is a dynamic and complex environment due to the hyper-connectedness and therefore such an approach should aim for cyber resilience to cope with this...master thesis 2015
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Spruit, R. (author), Van Tol, F. (author), Broere, W. (author)If a calamity with a retaining wall occurs, the impact on surrounding buildings and infrastructure is at least an order of magnitude more severe than without the calamity. In 2005 and 2006 major leaks in the retaining walls of underground stations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam occurred. After these cases had been thoroughly studied it was concluded...conference paper 2015
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Spruit, R. (author), Van Tol, F. (author), Broere, W. (author)If a calamity with a retaining wall occurs, the impact on surrounding buildings and infrastructure is at least an order of magnitude more severe than without the calamity. In 2005 and 2006 major leaks in the retaining walls of underground stations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam occurred. After these cases had been thoroughly studied it was concluded...conference paper 2015
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Ko, F.W.Y. (author)Hong Kong faces a unique long-term slope safety problem due to its dense urban development in a hilly terrain combined with high seasonal rainfall. Its slope engineering practice and landslide risk management have evolved in response to experience and through continuous improvement initiatives and technology advances. The application of state-of...conference paper 2015