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Lectoraat Groene Leefomgeving van Steden

Dit boekje gaat over het lectoraat Groene Leefomgeving van Steden aan Hogeschool VHL van lector Wim Timmermans. In hoofdstuk 2 wordt een korte, chronologische geschiedenis verteld van het lectoraat, van de eerste kennismakingsgesprekken en experimenten met studentencharettes, via de formulering van de eerste werkfilosofie naar een steeds strakker in elkaar stekend programma om praktijkgericht onderwijs en onderzoek te verenigen. In hoofdstuk 3 wordt via vijf thematische stapstenen als het ware door die geschiedenis heen en weer gehinkeld. Uit het project Jonge Friezen Foarút bleek hoe studenten ingezet kunnen worden als interventiemacht. In Amersfoort leidde praktijkgericht onderzoek ertoe dat de major Management Buitenruimte een andere invulling kreeg. In het Europese project VALUE-Added werden studentencharettes gebruikt voor evaluatie van studentencharettes. Experimentele projecten uit het Kennisverspreiding en Innovatie Groen Onderwijs (KIGO) project rondom eco-engineering zorgden ervoor dat docenten en studenten samen met kunstenaars en technici voorbij de grenzen van hun vakmatige disciplines werkten. Als afsluiting van het boek wordt ingegaan op de managementstijl van Timmermans, die het best omschreven kan worden als quiet leadership.

Practical guidelines for conducting a situational analysis at meso-level

Behavioural perspective on car owners’ uptake of shared e-mobility

In the Interreg Smart Shared Green Mobility Hubs project, electric shared mobility is offered through eHUBs in the city. eHUBs are physical places inneighbourhoods where shared mobility is offered, with the intention of changing citizens’ travel behaviour by creating attractive alternatives to private car use.In this research, we aimed to gain insight into psychological factors that influence car owners’ intentions to try out shared electric vehicles from an eHUB in order to ascertain:1. The psychological factors that determine whether car owners are willing to try out shared electric modalities in the eHUBs and whether these factors are identical for cities with different mobility contexts.2. How these insights into psychological determinants can be applied to entice car owners to try out shared electric modalities in the eHUBs.Research was conducted in two cities: Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Leuven (Belgium). An onlinesurvey was distributed to car owners in both cities inSeptember 2020 and, additionally, interviews wereheld with 12 car owners in each city.In general, car owners from Amsterdam and Leuven seem positive about the prospect of having eHUBs in their cities. However, they show less interest inusing the eHUBs themselves, as they are satisfied with their private car, which suits their mobility needs. Car owners mentioned the following reasons for notbeing interested in trying out the eHUBs: they simply do not see a need to do so, the costs involved with usage, the need to plan ahead, the expected hasslewith registration and ‘figuring out how it works’, having other travel needs, safety concerns, having to travel a distance to get to the vehicle, and a preferencefor ownership. Car owners who indicated that they felt neutral, or that they were likely to try out an eHUB, mentioned the following reasons for doing so:curiosity, attractive pricing, convenience, not owning a vehicle like those offered in an eHUB, environmental concerns, availability nearby, and necessity when theirown vehicle is unavailable.In both cities, the most important predictor determining car owners’ intention to try out an eHUB is the perceived usefulness of trying out an eHUB.In Amsterdam, experience with shared mobility and familiarity with the concept were the second and third factors determining car owners’ interest in tryingout shared mobility. In Leuven, pro-environmental attitude was the second factor determining car owners’ openness to trying out the eHUBs, and agewas the third factor, with older car owners being less likely to try one out.Having established that perceived usefulness was the most important determinant for car owners to try out shared electric vehicles from an eHUB, weconducted additional research, which showed that, in both cities, three factors contribute to perceived usefulness, in order of relevance: (1) injunctive norms(e.g., perceiving that society views trying out eHUBs as correct behaviour); (2) trust in shared electric mobility as a solution to problems in the city (e.g., expecting private car owners’ uptake of eHUBs to contributeto cleaner air, reduce traffic jams in city, and combat climate change); and (3) trust in the quality and safety of the vehicles, including the protection of users’privacy. In Amsterdam specifically, two additional factors contributed to perceived usefulness of eHUBs: drivers’ confidence in their capacity to try out anunfamiliar vehicle from the eHUB and experience of travelling in various modes of transport.Drawing on the relevant literature, the results of our research, and our behavioural expertise, we make the following recommendations to increase car users’ uptake of shared e-mobility:1. Address car owners’ attentional bias, which filters out messages on alternative transport modes.2. Emphasise benefits of (trying out) shared mobility from different perspectives so that multiple goals can be addressed.3. Change the environment and the infrastructure, as infrastructure determines choice of transport.4. For Leuven specifically: target younger car owners and car owners with high pro-environmental attitudes.5. For Amsterdam specifically: provide information on eHUBs and opportunities for trying out eHUBs.

Spatial Policy for 4DHC

main spatial policy approaches to securing DHC through new developments in Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Kwantitatief gedragsonderzoek ongebruikte medicijnen

Het doel van het dit onderzoek is om inzicht te krijgen in het gedrag van burgers in NoordNederland met betrekking tot het omgaan met ongebruikte medicijnen. Deze inzichten kunnen worden gebruikt om media-gedragsinterventies te ontwerpen die burgers stimuleren om ongebruikte medicijnen in te leveren bij een apotheek of de milieustraat. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd door het lectoraat Transformational Media van NHL Stenden Hogeschool en maakt deel uit van het door SNN-gesubsidieerde project "Medicijnresten uit Water", een samenwerkingsproject van het Netwerk Medicijnresten uit water Noord-Nederland. Dit is een brede samenwerking van 20 partners uit de zorg-, water- en kennissector, geleid door het HANNN (Healthy Ageing Network Noord-Nederland), met als doelstelling om medicijnresten in het water te verminderen door een Mcross-sectorale samenwerking.

Energy Citizenship in New Energy Concepts

It is assumed by the projects demonstrating Positive Energy District (PED) concepts in cities across Europe that citizens should want and need to be involved in the development of new energy concepts, such as PEDs for these concepts to be deployed successfully. Six different PED research and innovation projects are investigating the types and expectations of citizen engagement. They evaluate the impact of energy citizenship on the success of PED deployment across Europe.