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Frames in the Toxicity Controversy
Risk Assessment and Policy Analysis Related to the Dutch Chlorine Debate and the Swedish PVC Debate
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Preface When you write a book like this after ten years' working as an environmental specialist, you end up with something that reflects your career. Of course, when I started working at the Ministry of the Environment in the Netherlands, I could not foresee that I would now be at TNO, nor that I...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use Scanner model, which has been used in spatial planning for well over a decade. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model can be applied at a national level for trend extrapolation,...
Coastal Lowlands
Geology and Geotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Coastal Lowlands by virtue of their position across the boundary of land and sea belong to the earth's most dynamic systems. This is true in the physical, i. e. geological and biological, as much as in the cultural and social sense. Although the nearness to the sea was and still is fraught with danger...
The Failure of a Liberal Colonial Policy
Netherlands East Indies, 1816–1830
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood Based Problems?
A Policy Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This edited volume critically examines the link between area based policies, neighbourhood based problems, and neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics....
European Business Ethics Cases in Context
The Morality of Corporate Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Business ethics as a discipline leans on cases but flourishes by thorough analysis and reflection. The present volume offers both. After three introductory chapters into business ethics eight recent European cases, mainly stemming from The Netherlands and Belgium and all of them with a clear moral...
Hydrological Systems Analysis
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the development of concepts and methodology of hydrological sys tems analysis and its wide range of practical applications. Hydrological systems analysis involves the management, processing and interpretation of huge amounts of geoscien tific as...
Industrialization Emigration
The Consequences of the Demographic Development in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization
Proceedings of the Second European Communities Workshop 30 November – 2 December 1981, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The second E. C. Workshop on Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization was organized for the assessment of research goals and plans as the basis to a grant proposal for a "Concerted Action" which will be forwarded to the European Commission. It should, therefore, not only be considered as a work...
by Luciana S. Esteves
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Managed realignment has been a preferred coastal management strategy in England in the 21st century and has also been increasingly implemented elsewhere. Climate change and environmental and financial concerns have led to a shift from the traditional ‘hold-the-line’ approach of coastal protection...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In August 1989, a Summer Institute was held at the Academie van Bouwkunst, the seventeenth century home of Amsterdam's School of Architecture, Town Planning and Landscape. The meeting brought together experts in Geographical Information Systems from throughout the world to address an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The subject of personal and moral identity is at the centre of interest, not only of academic research within disciplines such as philosophy and psychology, but also of everyday thinking. This is why the Neth erlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics of the...
Man and His Mind-Changers
Highlights of the 30th International Congress on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Amsterdam, September 4–9, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"We ourselves are part of the problem, not ofits solution". This pronouncement, made by psychologist R. S. B. Wiener during the panel on social policy, provided a leading Dutch weekly with an excellent headline for an article on the 30th International Congress on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Creativity and design creativity in particular are being recognized as playing an increasing role in the social and economic wellbeing of a society. As a consequence creativity is becoming a focus of research. However, much of this burgeoning research is distributed across multiple disciplines that...