Abstract: Climate change is related with weather extremes, which may cause damages to infrastructure used by freight transport services. Heavy rainfall may lead to flooding and damage to railway lines, roads and inland waterways. Extreme drought may lead to extremely low water levels, which prevent …

Comprehensive understanding of the merits of bottom-up urban development is lacking, thus hampering and complicating associated collaborative processes. Therefore, and given the assumed relevancies, we mapped the social, environmental and economic values generated by bottom-up developments in two Dutch …

Abstract. In recent years circular economy has become more important for the development of many places including cities. Traditionally, urban development policies have mainly been aiming to improve the socio-economic wellbeing of neighbourhoods. However, technical and ecologic aspects have their effects …

This lessons learned report gives an overview of the output and results of the first phase of the REDUCES project. The introduction states the relevance of combining a policy approach with business model analysis, and defines the objectives. Next, an overview is given of circular economy good business …

Werkspoorkwartier is nu hét toonbeeld van circulaire gebiedsontwikkeling. Niet alleen gebouwen werden circulair gerenoveerd en gebouwd, dus met gebruikte materialen, zonder afval en toekomstbestendig, maar ook nieuwe vormen van samenwerking en bedrijfsvoering werden ontwikkeld. Wil je weten hoe je een …

De generieke uitgaven aan de innovatiebox – een belasting­korting op winst uit innovaties – zijn niet in lijn met de gerichte missies die de Rijksoverheid voor ogen heeft. Ook komen de uitgaven slechts bij een klein deel van de bedrijven terecht, en stimuleren de overheidsmiddelen de innovatie niet als …

This document combines four reports on existing regional business support programmes for inclusion or understanding of circular economy (CE) objectives, deliverable DT3.1.2 from the transform-CE project. Besides a general overview on national and regional level, the focus is on a selection of national …

Despite the efforts of governments and firms, the construction industry is trailing other industries in labour productivity. Construction companies are interested in increasing their labour productivity, particularly when demand grows and construction firms cope with labour shortages. Off-site construction …

Circularity and recycling are gaining increased attention, yet the amount of recycled plastic applied in new products remains low. To accelerate uptake by businesses, it will be useful to empirically investigate the main barriers and enablers that organisations experience when using recycled plastic …

Nederland heeft een lange traditie van stevig industriebeleid. Welke lessen leert de geschiedenis voor de vergroening van de basisindustrie?