Due to the enduring economic crisis of the past five years, The Netherlands are in a transition from a welfare society to a participatory society. This concept plays a major role in policies today and it was central in ...

The city of Semarang is one of the examples of densely populated cities located in the coastal regions of South-East Asia. In the north of Semarang lies the district of Kemijen. Kemijen is subjected to continual flooding ...

Innovatie is een toenemend belangrijke factor in de wereldeconomie. Het is dan ook niet verassend dat innovaties in de huidige wereld een privaat bezit zijn. Innovaties worden beschermd door middel van zogenaamde ...

This research contributes to a better knowledge of the use of mobile phones and (social) media, and how this influences the livelihoods of the born frees living in the small-town Alice (Eastern Cape, South Africa). The ...

The urban world is changing and urban sprawl is one of its main initiators. Urban sprawl can be defined as an urban process which mostly occurs as an undesirable development pattern. It basically is the excessive growth ...

Climate change threats cities all over the world and especially those in developing countries are at risk. South East Asian countries urbanize rapidly and the expanding cities, especially in coastal areas, are put in a ...

On the global scale it are always the Western countries in power who tell the other countries of the world how to do things the ‘right’ way, according to democratic and capitalistic principles. The behaviour of these ...

This study has focussed on gender differences in remittance behavior on both sending and receiving side, and the influence of migration of the spouse and consequential remittance behavior on genderdifferentiated household ...

This bureaucratization is not the only difficulty for Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Other obstacles are changing accents in the field of themes and countries, changing power relations between the state and ...

This thesis concerns the topic of education and peace building, a topic that only recently has begun to receive attention and has become an issue on the agenda of the international development aid community. While the ...