Route: The blue route: water as a pathway to innovation and sustainable growth
cluster question: 008 How is the climate changing, including extreme weather, and what impact will those changes have?
Climate projections indicate higher temperatures, more extreme precipitation and an increase in drought. All cities in the Netherlands are conducting […]
View the initiativeRoute: Towards resilient societies
cluster question: 050 What is the secret of a resilient society?
Scientific expertise can be bitterly contested nowadays, especially when governments deal with major social problems, such as COVID-19, vaccination against […]
View the initiativeRoute: Towards resilient societies
cluster question: 011 How can we ensure proper water governance in the future?
This project aims to reshape water policies and strategies in light of global environmental change, to render them more resilient. […]
View the initiativeRoute: Towards resilient societies
cluster question: 008 How is the climate changing, including extreme weather, and what impact will those changes have?
As a result of climate change, a low-lying country like the Netherlands will face rising sea levels, increases in precipitation […]
View the initiativeRoute: Sustainable development goals for inclusive global development
cluster question: 015 How can we make agricultural production systems more sustainable as the worldwide demand for healthy, safe food continues to grow?
Mitigating climate change and addressing excess deposition of nitrogen are two main societal challenges in the Netherlands. To limit climate […]
View the initiativeRoute: The blue route: water as a pathway to innovation and sustainable growth
cluster question: 011 How can we ensure proper water governance in the future?
Worldwide, people in delta regions are increasingly at risk. Rapid urbanization along riverbanks and in low-lying floodplains, coupled with sea-level […]
View the initiativeRoute: Sustainable development goals for inclusive global development
cluster question: 055 How do we protect ourselves against natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods)?
An increasing number of studies confirm a positive causal relationship between climate change and conflict, suggesting this relationship is most […]
View the initiativeRoute: Sustainable development goals for inclusive global development
cluster question: 040 How can we improve the effectiveness and legitimacy of legislation, given the global challenges we face with respect to the environment, security, innovation, energy, and climate change?
The envisaged project aims at improving the effectiveness of gender safeguards for indigenous women in transnational environmental projects. It does […]
View the initiativeRoute: Quality of the living environment
cluster question: 065 What should education be like in the future?
The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, presented in September 2020 by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, calls for a shift […]
View the initiativeRoute: Energy transition
cluster question: 019 How should we undertake the transition to an entirely sustainable energy supply?
Meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement means leaving most fossil fuel reserves unexploited. How can we design a global, […]
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