Rutgerd Boelens Understanding the world’s diverse, on-the-ground water worldviews and cultures - in the past and the present - is essential to value the…
Leyla Sayfutdinova The oil and gas industry currently produce well over half of the energy that is consumed in the world (Ritchie 2020). Yet, the climate crisis…
Gül Aktürk & Stephan Hauser Sea snot is spreading over the Sea of Marmara in Turkey. This slimy substance is a symptom of marine pollution, and is threatening…
Arie den Boer The outer harbor of Alblasserdam, a village along the Noord river in West Alblasserwaard, has long been used as a berth for inland shipping. Since…
The port of Rotterdam has a good tradition in designing serious games as an approach to innovate decision making processes. The combination of new substantive…
Bart Schultz All over the world, people celebrate water. In our fifth Blue Paper, Bart Schultz (professor emeritus of UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education)…
Nadia Alaily-Mattar and John Hanna In the aftermath of the devastating explosion in Beirut in August, 2020, many ideas for reconstruction surfaced in the media…
Jason Nguyen The mapping of the seas has long been a preoccupation of navigators, scholars, politicians, and business executives. The early modern era, which…
John Hanna & Martin Valinger Sluga What do we learn about port cities when the Mediterranean Sea is the point of reference? The Agora Webinar Talks about…
Frans Wijsen Whereas water is central to most religions, the treatment of water is often far from holy. With case studies from the Netherlands and Indonesia…