Research projects
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Biodiversity Integration in Climate Adaptation & Mitigation
BioCAM4 explores how integrated nature and climate action can drive just and sustainable transformations, developing tools and case studies to align global and local efforts toward the Paris Agreement and Global Biodiversity Framework.
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Climate Action Methodology Data and Analysis (CAMDA)
CAMDA is a global research and data community dedicated to providing credible information on the ambition and progress of subnational and non-state climate actors.
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Smart Emission: citizens as city guards of environmental quality
Between 2015 and 2017, action research was conducted by an experimental citizen monitoring network in Nijmegen as part of the Smart Emission project. The citizen monitoring network used new small sensors to map environmental pollution in the city.
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Triple AccesS planning (TRIAS)
Working in a transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary consortium, TRIAS will explore new narratives that integrate digital, spatial and physical mobility into visions and strategies for healthcare accessibility.
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Just Grow Project: Co-designing justice-centric indicators and governance principles to intensify urban agriculture sustainably and equitably
The JUST GROW project aims to achieve sustainable urban food systems through justice and equity in urban agricultural intensification. Radboud University will develop methods for land access and labor justice.
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Infrastructuring Nature as Border Technique. How (Supra-)States Intensify Displacement Through Inhospitable Landscapes
Dit onderzoeksproject richt zich op het bredere gebied van gedwongen migratie, waarbij de relatie tussen natuur, grensregimes en de verplaatsing van ontheemde bevolkingsgroepen wordt onderzocht.
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PLANET4B: understanding Plural values, intersectionality, Leverage points, Attitudes, Norms, behaviour and social lEarning in Transformation for Biodiversity decision making
The PLANET4B Horizon Europe research project aims to understand and influence decision making affecting biodiversity.
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COPPER: Creating, Optimizing and Planning Positive EneRgy districts while connecting citizens’ energy at different geographical levels
The COPPER project develops and optimises strategic spatial energy planning in cooperation with neighbourhood communities in Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.
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Living Lab B7: working with Farmers, Residents, Visitors and Policymakers on a Better Biodiversity in the Bulb Region
With Living Lab B7, Farmers, Residents, Visitors and Policymakers are working on a Better Biodiversity in the Bulb Region.
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EXPLORE. EXPerimentaL gOvernance for the Regional Energy transition
Project EXPLORE includes novel insights into the performance of participation and governance models, the potential role of participatory modelling in regional energy transitions and in real-life experiments.
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Global Strategy for Skills, Migration, and Development (GS4S)
GS4S seeks to better understand global skills shortages in selected sectors and strengthens evidence-based policies through new evidence on various overlooked global mobility schemes.
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Achieving High-Integrity Voluntary Climate Action (ACHIEVE)
The ACHIEVE research project will identify opportunities to strenghten and scale up voluntary climate action, to achieve a worldwide net-zero society by 2050.
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VIA Participatietraject Nijmegen (VIA participation process)
This project sought to understand how the VIA participation process in the Municipality of Nijmegen contributes to higher levels or participation in society through work, both voluntary and paid.
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GAPs
What are the trajectories, infrastructures, and diplomacies that shape the EU’s governance of return migration? What are the effects and human rights costs of this return governance?
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Transgressing ‘good’ cities
The project will investigate the implications of colonial legacies in (re)defining people’s experience and engagement of public spaces.
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JUST-PREPARE
The research project investigates the social, technical and societal dimensions of a just and effective energy transition, from carbon-based to renewable energy practices.
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KLIMAP
The aim of the project is to develop tangible ways in which to transition to climate resilient management of soil and water within agriculture and natural areas in the sandy areas of the Netherlands.
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C-LIMES: Constructing the Limes
In this project, we not only investigate the impact of this border on migration and the import of goods and crops in antiquity, but also focus on how the limes becomes visible as cultural heritage today.
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21st Century Borders
Debates continue about how to theorize the changing nature of borders in a globalizing world. Concepts such as ‘the vacillating border,’ ‘mobile’ borders or ‘borders in motion’ have been predominant.
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Infrastructuring Libraries in Transformation (ILIT)
ILIT examines how public libraries in Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands as socio-cultural infrastructures address systemic challenges in rapidly transforming societies.