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Vince, Vera (author), Jansen Venneboer, Maaike (author), Wolfert, Sandra (author), Jiang, Yuqian (author)
The global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption, pollution, and climate change. Building resilient freshwater systems is one of the most significant challenges in the face of climate change.<br/>The Rhine River basin is home to over 60 million people. It's a center for trade, industry, and food production. However,...
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Pryce, David (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Memon, Fayyaz A. (author)
Limiting the introduction of excess nitrogen to natural water sources is a growing priority for water security and environmental health. This poses particular difficulties in urban environments where available land for potential solutions is limited. A promising option is the integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) process that requires...
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Wang, Jiaqi (author)
In the past few decades, urbanisation in China has been witnessed with great speed. While this has brought a rocketing economy and improved citizens’ average living standards, it does not come without any expense. Such intensive urban sprawling and industrialization in China has added up a great risk to upcoming climate challenges, especially...
master thesis 2022
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Murawska, Kinga (author)
The proximity of rivers stimulated the development of the economy and culture of civilizations throughout the ages. Consequently, the advancements in technology allowed people to influence the riverine systems. In riparian areas, such as the Vistula River Delta, the river was regulated and the land was reclaimed to accommodate agriculture,...
master thesis 2021
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Valinejad, Jaber (author), Mili, Lamine (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author), Xu, Yijun (author)
According to the Department of Energy, demand response provides an opportunity for end-users to play a significant role in the efficiency, reliability, resilience, and sustainability of a power grid. This is made possible owing to the existence of storage devices and diversity of energy sources at the customer level and the advent of the...
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Chen, X. (author)
The worldwide crisis in environmental resources, such as deteriorating water resource is intensifying. In Manhattan island, a metropolitan area, the risk is also extremely remarkable. According to the United Nations sustainable development goals, at the current time, more than 2 billion people across the world are living under the crisis of...
master thesis 2020
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Garcia Vogt, Nicole (author)
The extreme character of human activities and hard infrastructures in combination with the continuous variation of the climate has triggered an unprecedented fast rate of alterations in the environment. Hereafter the anthropogenically magnified climate change is increasing stress on ecosystems; especially interfaces such as coastal areas are in...
master thesis 2020
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Ndayizeye, Christophe (author)
‘Phytoremediation is the use of plants and their associated microbes for environmental clean-up’(Pilon-Smits, 2005). It is a natural, passive and efficient way of cleaning contaminated soil, water, and air. Every year, there are reports of contamination of swimmers due to the contaminated canal water round the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. The...
master thesis 2019
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Vermeulen, L.C. (author), Kraker, J. (author), Hofstra, N. (author), Kroeze, C. (author), Medema, G. (author)
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that can cause diarrhoea. Human faeces are an important source of Cryptosporidium in surface waters. We present a model to study the impact of sanitation, urbanization and population growth on human emissions of Cryptosporidium to surface waters. We build on a global model by Hofstra et al (2013 Sci. Total...
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Peters, T. (author), Jongerius, Y.R. (author), Franken, J.T. (author), Ponsioen, L.A. (author), Tieleman, O.C. (author)
The Tam Giang-Cau Hai lagoon system, lying in the Thua Thien-Hue province in central Vietnam, is affected by a tropical monsoon climate. This among others is the reason the Cau Hai Lagoon area has a long history of floods and other water related problems. Inhabitants are very dependent on the lagoon, as the main sources of income of people...
student report 2015
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Lay-Ekuakille, A. (author), Palamara, I. (author), Caratelli, D. (author), Morabito, F.C. (author)
Subterranean waters are often polluted by industrial and anthropic effluents that are drained in subsoil. To prevent and control pollution, legislations of different developed countries require an online monitoring measurement, especially for detecting organic solvents (chlorinated and unchlorinated ones). Online measurements include both real...
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Bovelander, R.W. (author), Langenberg, V.T. (author)
The Netherlands participates in the Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) of the Oslo and Paris Commissions. In this framework it was agreed that all members or contracting parties should report on the national comments that accompany the data submissions to ICES database. This report presents the results and comments of the Dutch...
report 2006
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Bovelander, R.W. (author), Langenberg, V.T. (author)
The Netherlands participates in the Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) of the Oslo and Paris Commissions. In this framework it was agreed that all members or contracting parties should report on the national comments that accompany the data submissions to ICES database. This report presents the results and comments of the Dutch...
report 2005
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Bovelander, R.W. (author), Langenberg, V.T. (author)
The Netherlands participates in the Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) of the Oslo and Paris Commissions. In this framework it was agreed that all members or contracting parties should report on the national comments that accompany the data submissions to ICES database. This report presents the results and comments of the Dutch...
report 2004
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Bovelander, R.W. (author), Akhiat, A. (author)
The Netherlands participates in the Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) of the Oslo and Paris Commissions. This report presents the results of the Dutch contribution to the programme 2001 and the sediment results of 2000 which were not yet available at the time of the last evaluation report of the Netherlands in 2000 (ref.19)....
report 2003
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Hekster, F.M. (author), De Voogt, P. (author), Pijnenburg, A.M.C.M. (author), Laane, R.W.P.M. (author)
GENERAL Perfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) is the collective name for a group of fluorinated chemicals, including oligomers and polymers. There are two major production routes for PFAS: Electrochemical fluorination and telomerisation. The products from the first process contain a sulfonyl group (the so-called ECFproducts). The products from...
report 2002
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Van Zeijl, W.J.M. (author), Akhiat, A. (author)
The Netherlands participates in the Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) of the Oslo and Paris Commissions. This report gives the results of the Dutch contribution to the programme for the year 2000. An overview of the national JAMP programme is given in figure 1. This figure is a map of the Dutch part of the continental shelf...
report 2002
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Bakkum, R.C.J. (author), Groot, S. (author)
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Savornin Lohman, A.A.M. de (author)
report 1992
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Kerdijk, H.N. (author), Sipkema, W. (author), Arkema, P. (author), Smedes, F. (author), Jong, A. de (author)
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