Moral food lab: Transforming the food system with crowd-sourced ethics
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Touristification of consumption spaces describes a process in which retail and hospitality businesses adapt to the tourist demand, eroding place attachment among local residents. While this is an important cause of resistance to tourism, little is known about the mechanisms that drive or mediate this process. We address this gap by interviewing entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. We found three distinct areas in close proximity where entrepreneurs responded to increasing tourism in markedly different ways; by crowd-pleasing, niche-playing and gentrifying. The resulting microgeographies of touristification of consumption spaces have not only been overlooked in literature, but also in urban policies. This causes a mismatch between the more generic, city-wide regulation and the highly differentiated effects of tourism on consumption spaces.
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We finished USE2015 with a closing session inspired on the example of the successful closing session of USE2013 in Nelson, New Zealand. The session hosted a few different parts – you can, for instance, read about the PhD award the first newsletter we published after USE2015. Main element was that the remaining participants convened around five flipovers to summarize lessons learned at USE2015, and remaining questions to be discussed at USE2017. The flipovers were organized by various threads/themes that organized the USE2015 programme. The discussion at each one was presided over by a participant: Karel-Jan Alsem (health care organisations as SMEs); William Cockburn (ESENER and SESAME); Sisse Grön (national and sector level occupational safety and health); Garrett Burnett (firm level occupational safety and health); and Louis Polstra (governance, employment & SMEs). After some time for discussion around each flipover, Hans-Jörgen Limborg and Harm van Lieshout lead the crowd in a full circle along all five flipovers, and interviewed the ‘flipover chairs’ and some others on lessons learned and questions to be discussed. We summarize some of those lessons and questions for each of these five themes in section 2. Section 3 presents three general lessons and questions from USE2015 to USE2017. Section 4 presents the host of USE2017.
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Proceedings van de USE Conference 2015 A Healthy Working Life in a Healthy Business
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In deze bijdrage zullen eerst kort de conclusies van beide rapporten worden weergegeven waarna wat langer wordt stil gestaan bij de waarde en bijdrage van biede rapporten. Mijn conclusie na lezing van beide rapporten en het verslag van de gemeenteraad daarover is duidelijk. Het leidt geen twijfel dat er in Utrecht (als we de evaluatoren moeten geloven zelfs forse) fouten zijn gemaakt na metingen van asbest in verschillende woningen; door de gemeente, de organisaties die de crisis bestreden en door woningbouwcorporatie Mitros. Toch draagt de manier van rapporteren en concluderen maar in beperkte mate bij aan het doorgronden van de problemen en moet de vraag gesteld worden of wij in de toekomst moeten doorgaan met het doen van evaluaties op een dergelijke (gescheiden) wijze. Evaluatoren zijn over het algemeen veel te veel gericht op oordlen en soms ook veroordlen, en veel te weinig op het begrijpen
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