Wat is wetenschap? Hoe is wetenschap ontstaan? Hoe evolueert wetenschap en waarom evolueert ze zo? Deze vragen staan centraal in dit werk. Wie wil achterhalen hoe wetenschap evolueert, denkt meteen aan schitterende ingevingen van briljantewetenschappers, aan nieuwe experimenten van vooruitstrevende onderzoekers, aan technische innovaties die de wetenschappen naar een hoger niveau tillen. Uiteraard dragen al deze elementen bij tot de ontwikkeling van wetenschap, maar de werkelijkheid is toch e...

Previous experiences have shown that the implementation of planning policy does not always lead to the originally intended territorial management outcomes. This issue
is particularly crucial when policy ideas, institutions, models and programmes are transferred into places with different cultural settings without adaptations (Knieling and Othengrafen 2009b; Sanyal 2005). These unexpected consequences in planning practice and management outcomes have brought a significant amount of attention...

The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and the dependency of buildings on
fossil fuels were the two main issues that formed this dissertation. UHI results in higher air temperatures in dense urban areas compared with their suburbs and rural surroundings. This phenomenon affects human health through thermal discomfort. Furthermore, in the Netherlands, it is estimated that by 2050 the air temperature could be up to 2.3°C warmer as compared to the period of 1981-2010. Besides, the energy cons...

Since the 1980s China has experienced unprecedented urbanisation as a result of a series of reforms promoting rapid economic development. Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47 million, wh...

In its parallel pursuit of an increased competitivity for design offices and more pleasurable and easier workflows for designers, artificial design intelligence is a technical, intellectual, and political challenge. While human-machine cooperation has become commonplace through Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, a more improved collaboration and better support appear possible only through an endeavor into a kind of artificial design intelligence, which is more sensitive to the human perceptio...

Wat is werkelijkheid?

Bestaan ruimte en tijd wel echt?

Valt de ware aard van ons bestaan eigenlijk wel te doorgronden?

Sinds vele jaren probeert de natuurkundige Carlo Rovelli de grenzen van ons begrip op te rekken. In dit boek neemt hij ons mee op reis, van het werkelijkheidsbegrip van de oude Grieken tot de lus kwantumzwaartekracht. Een kosmologie zonder oerknal en parallelle universa, die hier door de bedenker ervan voor de eerste keer en voor een breed publiek uitvoerig en toegankelijk wo...

1815, de vulkaan Tambora barst met zoveel kracht uit dat temperaturen over de hele wereld dalen - het is de start van een jaar zonder zomer en wereldwijde hongersnood

1859, een krachtige zonnestorm legt het globale telegraafnetwerk plat

1908, een steen uit de ruimte slaat in en legt in Siberië een gebied ter grootte van Luxemburg plat

1918, de Spaanse griep eist vijftig miljoen slachtoffers.

Het zijn zeldzame scenario’s, maar ooit is het opnieuw prijs. Zijn we klaar als de alarmniveaus wee...

A concise, coherent and easily readable textbook about the field of science communication, connecting the practice of science communicators with theory. In the book, recent trends and shifts in the field resonate, such as the transition from telling about science to interacting with the public and the importance of science communication in health and environmental communication. The chapters have been written by experts in their disciplines, coming from philosophy of science and communication...

A beloved introductory physics textbook, now including exercises and an answer key, explains the concepts essential for thorough scientific understanding In this concise book, R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, explains the essential concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Now in an expanded edition—complete with problem sets and answers for course use or self-study—this work p...

Multivariate Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition is designed to show how a variety of statistical methods can be used to analyse data collected by psychologists and other behavioral scientists. Assuming some familiarity with introductory statistics, the book begins by briefly describing a variety of study designs used in the behavioral sciences, and the concept of models for data analysis. The contentious issues of p-values and confidence intervals are also discussed in the i...