Route: Quality of the living environment
cluster question: 003 Why is biodiversity important and how do we protect it?
Biodiversity in rural areas has declined sharply due to intensification of agriculture, urban development and climate change. Biodiversity loss is […]
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: 047 How can we promote social cohesion in a society that is culturally and religiously diverse?
Over the past seventy years, The Netherlands has adopted various policies addressing diversity in different ways and implemented at different […]
View the initiativeRoute: Sustainable production of safe and healthy food
cluster question: 015 How can we make agricultural production systems more sustainable as the worldwide demand for healthy, safe food continues to grow?
Questions of how we choose what (not) to eat are becoming increasingly pertinent, as recognition of the impact of our […]
View the initiativeRoute: Smart, liveable cities
cluster question: 112 Can we use Big Data and Big Data collection to define values, generate insights, and get answers?
The increasing urbanization and a rapidly changing climate make keeping cities resilient against disasters a huge challenge. With more and […]
View the initiativeRoute: Sustainable development goals for inclusive global development
cluster question: 042 How can we limit poverty and increase wellbeing worldwide?
Recent findings have shown that interactions between sustainable development goals are common, so that investments in developments to meet one […]
View the initiativeRoute: Sustainable development goals for inclusive global development
cluster question: 044 Can globalisation and development be reinvented in a way that, in time, will mitigate differences in prosperity between world regions?
Well-functioning health systems are crucial to achieve health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the world is off-track to achieve the […]
View the initiativeRoute: Quality of the living environment
cluster question: 019 How should we undertake the transition to an entirely sustainable energy supply?
Cities and regions need to be carbon neutral by 2050. In the meantime, they are already facing the effects of […]
View the initiativeRoute: Logistics and transport in an energetic, innovative, and sustainable society
cluster question: 027 What are smarter and greener ways of transporting passengers and goods that make optimal use of all forms of transport?
Nature is full of self-organizing (SO) systems as they are robust, flexible and effective. More and more, man-made systems are […]
View the initiativeRoute: Living history
cluster question: 011 How can we ensure proper water governance in the future?
The aim of DUTCH WATERSCAPE is to understand the paradigms and interconnected spatial and social conditions of Dutch living water […]
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