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cluster question: 004 How do ecosystems function and how vulnerable are they to environmental impacts?
Society is becoming keenly concerned of an emerging environmental contamination problem of the Anthropocene: ubiquitous and tiny plastic particulate debris […]
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cluster question: 002 What do humans and nature mean to each other and what is the ideal relationship between the two?
Mountain biking is rapidly gaining popularity in the Netherlands, catalyzed even further by the current COVID situation. Currently 4.5% of […]
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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 […]
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cluster question: 004 How do ecosystems function and how vulnerable are they to environmental impacts?
The core of the challenge that underlies NWA cluster question ‘004:Hoe functioneren eco-systemen en hoe gevoelig zijn zij voor milieu-invloeden?’ […]
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cluster question: 002 What do humans and nature mean to each other and what is the ideal relationship between the two?
Emotions play an essential role in the relation between people and nature. In the Netherlands, where management and control have […]
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cluster question: 015 How can we make agricultural production systems more sustainable as the worldwide demand for healthy, safe food continues to grow?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Alternative Food Networks (AFN)s are gaining momentum. New initiatives such as Herenboeren and Land van […]
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cluster question: 005 What role do micro-organisms play in ecosystems and how can we use them to improve health and the environment?
Inspired by bio-scientific insights into microbial worlds, social scientists who study the ways humans make sense of and order nature […]
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cluster question: 009 How can we make better use of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous cycles?
Urgent measures are needed to counter catastrophic climate change as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. In order to […]
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cluster question: 030 How can we keep our densely populated country liveable?
How can we organize society in such a way that our planet remains habitable for us and all other life […]
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cluster question: 002 What do humans and nature mean to each other and what is the ideal relationship between the two?
Nature areas in the heavily urbanized Netherlands are under constant pressure from environmental forces and competing land-use. Dutch nature policy […]
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