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IMPETUS

With persisting impacts of climate change on people's health and livelihoods and the environment, the need to build resilience, adaptive capacity and sustainable and environmentally-friendly economic measures become more urgent. IMPETUS, a four-year European Commission-funded project coordinated…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
Effects of Sand-Drift Dynamics on the Conservation and Restoration of Grey Dunes

Since 2012, within the framework of DPWE, research has been ongoing on the restoration and management issues of dry dune grasslands (habitat Grey dunes). The research is a…

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Sustainability
Climate change and resilience
A cost-effective system for measuring evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration is nearly always the main source of moisture loss in water balance studies. Most of the precipitation in an area is actually evaporated by crops, trees, natural…

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Sustainability
Sustainable energy
Energy-efficient and sustainable Tergooi hospital

Tergooi is developing a new hospital as part of the redevelopment of the Monnikenberg country estate to the east of Hilversum. The hospital is part of the supraregional health-care park that is…

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Experts

Arvid van Dam
Scientific researcher
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Arvid van Dam

Scientific researcher

Arvid van Dam is a researcher in the Innovation & Valorisation team. As an anthropologist, he is interested in the tensions and opportunities that may arise between different stakeholders in…

030-6069508

arvid.van.dam@kwrwater.nl

06-25255496

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Niek de Graaf
Facility technician/Coordinator Hard Services
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Niek de Graaf

Facility technician/Coordinator Hard Services

Niek de Graaf works as a general facilities technician at KWR. He has a background in facilities and followed supplementary training to ensure that the facilities support runs as smoothly…

030-6069503

niek.de.graaf@kwrwater.nl

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Jelmer Nijp PhD
Scientific researcher
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Jelmer Nijp PhD

Scientific researcher

Jelmer Nijp has been working as a researcher in the Ecohydrology team since 2018. Jelmer's field is at the interface of Hydrology and Ecology, combining mathematical models, field measurements, experiments…

030-6069630

jelmer.nijp@kwrwater.nl

06-15110775

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Making raised sandy soil areas climate-robust: the work goes on

05 March 2021 — Over the last four years the Lumbricus programme has involved the conduct of practice-oriented research, but also the…

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Lumbricus Closing Symposium: How can we make raised sandy soils climate-robust?

15 February 2021 — On 3 March the four-year (2016-2020) Lumbricus programme will hold its governance closing symposium. As one of the…

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New apparatus measures invisible water loss

16 September 2015 — We can see rain and snow, but that’s not the case for the biggest cause of water loss…

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