Na de cyberaanvallen op de Estse regering in 2007 wordt er vandaag de dag steeds meer tijd en geld besteed aan de cybersecurity van steden en met name smart cities. De digitalisering van steden brengt ook een zekere ...

The geographical position of Morocco on the border of North-Africa with Europe makes Morocco an attractive country for irregular migrants who wish to go to Europe. Within the flows of migration there are refugees from ...

Seemingly overnight, multiculturalism became an official policy of the South Korean government. This thesis argues that South Korea’s apparent strong embrace of multiculturalism can be traced back to the country’s ...

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 ...