Central to this research is the question how habitat banking relates to the Dutch governmental ambition to societalize nature policy. This question is answered by outlining and combining a substantial and a governance ...

The popular upheavals in the Middle East and the Arab world have had a deep impact on regional politics as well as on local conflicts, particularly the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. With political and ...

In dit onderzoek wordt getracht bij te dragen aan het stimuleren van duurzame ontwikkeling door maatschappelijke organisaties. Nagegaan wordt wat de wetenschap aan theoretische bouwstenen voorhanden heeft om, door ...

This thesis is testing the forecasting performance of the heterogeneous autoregressive model for realized volatility (HAR-RV), against the generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic model (GARCH (1, 1)), and ...

Many countries, among which the Netherlands and Germany, have devised plans to expand renewable energy production. Both of these countries have adopted wind energy on a large scale. As the production of wind energy is ...

De Parijse wijk Goutte d’Or lijkt een ideale wijk voor gentrificatie. Goutte d’Or is goed te bereiken met het openbaar vervoer, de prijzen zijn er nog relatief laag en het toeristische Montmarte ligt ernaast. Tegelijkertijd ...

In the 1960s Lipset and Rokkan established the now well-known argument that party systems have frozen. Even though there are sources that validate this statement, there are more that say party systems have not frozen. ...

Central-Java is one of Indonesia’s most affected regions by natural hazards and disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic activity are several disasters that inhabitants of these regions have to deal with on a regular ...

Recent studies have argued that European welfare states have been under tremendous pressure since the onset of the recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The health sector, in particular, has been affected by retrenchment ...