Moroccan companies face a multitude of risks related to their vulnerability to climate change, in particular operational, supply chain, and financial risks. In recent years, public and private actors have experimented with a number of approaches to facilitate the integration of climate change at different planning levels. Among these approaches, the Climate-Expert tool aims to help companies assess their vulnerability to climate change and develop relevant adaptation strategies. Some 20 Moroccan companies, in various sectors of activity, have tested this tool in the framework of two cooperation programs. First, this chapter provides an overview of the achievements of the adaptation mainstreaming process in the private sector in Morocco. Then, it analyzes the Climate-Expert approach qualitatively following three steps according to an iterative logic. The contact groups include the participants involved in the said cooperation programs, namely, experts, economic operators, and state and project officials. Finally, this chapter highlights the obstacles related to the Climate-Expert approach and proposes ways to improve the mainstreaming of adaptation based on the emerging realities and needs of the companies concerned. In addition, in terms of adaptation planning, this analysis emphasizes the need to upgrade Climate-Expert’s approach toward an integrated and well-documented design, using relevant climate and sectoral data and information to meet the needs of developing country companies. Regarding the implementation of adaptation measures, it remains relatively limited in the evaluated companies. This is mainly due to the lack of support and advice instruments and the lack of entities in charge of steering adaptation actions within these companies. This work will later pave the way for improving and adapting the Climate-Expert tool to meet the needs of action in such companies.
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Over the past 20 years, water quality in Indonesia has deteriorated due to an increase of water pollution. Research and analysis is needed to identify pollution sources and assess contamination in Indonesian water resources. Water quality management is not yet sufficiently integrated in river basin management in Indonesia, which mainly focuses on water quantity. Women are comparatively highly impacted by failing water resources management, but theirinvolvement in decision making processes is limited. Water quality deterioration continues to increase socio-economic inequality, as it are the most poor communities who live on and along the river. The uneven water quality related disease burden in Brantas River Basin widens the socio-economic gap between societal groups. In the Brantas region, cooperation and intention between stakeholders to tackle these issues is growing, but is fragile as well due to overlapping institutional mandates, poor status of water quality monitoring networks, and limited commitment of industries to treat their waste water streams. The existing group of Indonesian change makers will be supported by this project. Three Indonesian and three Dutch organisations have teamed up to support negotiation platforms in order to deal with institutional challenges, to increase water quality monitoring capacity, to build an enabling environment facilitating sustainable industrial change, and to develop an enabling environment in support of community concerns and civil society initiatives. The project builds on integrated water quality monitoring and modelling within a framework of social learning. The strong consortium will be able to build links with civil society groups (including women, farmer and fisher unions) in close cooperation with local, regional and national Indonesian governmentinstitutions to clean the Brantas river and secure income and health for East Java’s population, in particular the most vulnerable groups.
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Voor ict-opleidingen aan hogescholen en universiteiten valt er bij de meisjes nog veel te winnen. Er kiezen namelijk veel minder meisjes dan jongens voor een ict-vervolgopleiding. De voorlichting ook op meisjes afstemmen is noodzakelijk, maar niet voldoende. Het gaat niet alleen om de 'verpakking'. En het is ook niet zo dat meisjes vaker voor ict kiezen als ze beter geïnformeerd zijn. Juist ook de inhoud, de onderwijskundige vormgeving en de cultuur van ict-opleidingen moeten aantrekkelijk zijn, willen meisjes ervoor kiezen, willen ze de opleiding met succes doorlopen en uiteindelijk hun entree maken op de ict- arbeidsmarkt. Kortom, de instroom van meer meisjes is belangrijk, maar ook de doorstroom en een succesvolle uitstroom naar de arbeidsmarkt. Tips om te zorgen voor meer instroom van meisjes staan in het startdocument van Ict-STER. Dit kennisdocument richt zich op het verbeteren van de doorstroom en het verminderen van tussentijdse uitval van meisjes. Om effectieve strategieën te bedenken is het nodig om de onderliggende problemen te begrijpen. Hoofdstuk 1 beschrijft inzichten uit (recent) onderzoek op het gebied van gender en ict. In hoofdstuk 2 staan strategieën om te zorgen voor meer diversiteit in opleidingen. Per aspect staat beschreven wat instellingen kunnen doen om hun ict-opleiding aantrekkelijker te maken voor een brede doelgroep. Na de beknopte conclusies in hoofdstuk 3 volgt hoofdstuk 4 met een set 'do's' en 'don'ts' in de vorm van aanbevelingen. Voor wie zich verder wil verdiepen in het onderwerp gender en ict, is aan het einde een uitgebreide literatuurlijst opgenomen.
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Engineering Schools were among the first to address the challenge of Sustainable Development, and integrate Sustainable Development into their curricula. This paper identifies a tendency that this progress is stalking. Main factors are an increased tendency to train more narrowly specialized engineers, while specialized SD programs sometimes became an alibi to remove SD course from the major programs. Broader engineering programs are required for mainstreaming SD in engineering education. DOI: 10.15341/jmer(2155-7993)/01.09.2019/003 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karel-mulder-163aa96/
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The research examines junk news, followers of problematic sources as well as artificial amplification on Instagram during the 2019 Dutch provincial and European parliamentary elections. First, this study looks at the circulation of junk content in high-engagement political spaces on Instagram. Second, it takes up the question of the mainstreaming of Dutch junk news providers by looking at the intersection between the followers of Dutch political entities and those of junk news sources. Third, it looks at the presence of artificial engagement tactics (specifically fake followers) employed by Dutch political entities and news sources on Instagram. In all it was found that Dutch political Instagram is a relatively healthy space, but not for all issues or political entities.
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Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building and maintaining my dear medium, the internet, over the past three decades. To my surprise, the study does not take us to hackathons, Discord channels or the Chaos Computer Congress. Instead, it looks at the visual representation of this techno-figure in mainstream media such as film and television. Maybe that’s something to be proud of. From now on, nerds also have their own pop culture history. In my worldview, Hollywood screenwriters and television directors remain clueless about clumsy cyberculture and have mainly produced caricatures. But that’s not Kohouts take. For her, the representation of nerds in pop culture is key if we want to get a better understanding of the dynamics of mainstreaming digital culture.
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The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has funded a five years program to encourage the use, creation and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) by teachers from various types of education. This program is known as Wikiwijs. Ultimo 2013, the program has come to an end. As some of the assumptions at the start of Wikiwijs proved to work out in unexpected ways the lessons learned could fuel the next steps in developing Wikiwijs. Besides, other national initiatives on opening up education may also benefit from the lessons learned reported here. The main conclusion from five years Wikiwijs was that to accomplish mainstreaming OER, the Wikiwijs program should go along with other interventions that are more oriented toward prescriptive policies and regulations. In particular: the Dutch government should be more directive in persuading executive boards and teachers on schools to adopt OER as an important part of educational reform and the acquisition of 21st century skills.
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Het thema van het VNG-jaarcongres 2018 in Maastricht is ‘Over grenzen’. Nederlandse politici en bestuurders moeten grenzen durven te verleggen. Niet zelden is dit een landsgrens, die in de regio heel wat dichter bij is dan in Den Haag. Meer dan de helft van de provincies grenst aan het buitenland en landsgrensoverschrijdende samenwerking is dus aan de orde van de dag. Nationale of EU-regels en subsidies kunnen helpen beleidsdoelstellingen te verwezenlijken die op regionaal of lokaal niveau belangrijk worden gevonden. Maar grensoverschrijdend beleid stuit in de praktijk ook op andere, ‘Europese’ grenzen. Zo ontdekt een ondernemer te laat dat Duitsland EU-richtlijnen anders interpreteert dan Nederland. Dan weer stelt nieuwe Brusselse wetgeving aanbestedingseisen, of hebben Europese besluiten een negatieve impact op grensregio’s of op de visserij. Bij onbegrijpelijke, onuitvoerbare of botsende regels wordt er een spanning ervaren tussen Europees gemeenschappelijk beleid en Nederlandse decentralisatie. Dit essay focust op de grip op die Europese Unie (EU) als bestuurlijke uitdaging. doi: 10.5553/Bw/016571942018072002005 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mendeltje/
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Environmental unsustainability is due to both structural features and historically specific characteristics of industrial capitalism resulting in specific patterns of production and consumption, as well as population growth. Sustainability literature criticises the established corporate and political power hegemonies, interested in maintaining economic growth, as well as inability or unwillingness of citizen-consumers to counteract these hegemonic tendencies. Yet, official policies are still targeted at social and economic ‘development’ as a panacea for unsustainability challenges. Instead, renewed accent on social and economic objectives are outlined by a set of sustainable development goals (SDG) that include objectives of fighting poverty, promoting better health, reducing mortality, and stimulating equitable economic growth. What is less commonly critiqued is the underlying morality of unsustainability and ethical questions concerned with the ‘victims of unsustainability’ outside of socioeconomic discourse. The achievement of SDG goals, as will be further elaborated on in this article, is unlikely to lead to greater social equality and economic prosperity, but to a greater spread of unsustainable production and consumption, continuous economic as well as population growth that has caused environmental problems in the first place and further objectification of environment and its elements. This article argues that an invocation of ethical duty toward environment and its elements is required in order to move beyond the current status quo. Such ethical approach to unsustainability can effectively address the shortcomings of the mainstream sustainability discourse that is mainly anthropocentric and therefore fails to identify the correct locus of unsustainability. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International "Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology" on 2015 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2015.1111269 https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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