A5032308796- Rural development and sustainability
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Community Health and Development
- Forest Management and Policy
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- European history and politics
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Communism, Protests, Social Movements
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Wageningen University & Research
2016-2025
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
2020
Centre for BioSystems Genomics
2010
Urban Green Space (UGS) is considered to be beneficial for health and wellbeing of urban residents. But there growing evidence that benefits are not equally distributed. In this article we aim understand the role UGS plays in process social exclusion greening strategies can play enhancing equity specific groups excluded: elderly people with dementia, mental issues from an underprivileged neighborhood. The concepts inclusion their relation discussed. Four mechanisms distinguished based on...
Abstract Care farming is a promising example of multifunctional agriculture: it an innovation at the crossroads agricultural and healthcare sectors. Our objective to develop framework for understanding success initiatives in this field. We link empirical data with multi‐level perspective from transition sciences extend insights literature on entrepreneurship, alliance management organisational attributes. This allows us explain three major types initiatives: (1) individual care farms; (2)...
In the past decade, there has been a surge in Netherlands food initiatives that seek to transform prevailing agro-industrial model of provisioning. This evolved into wide range values-based territorial networks (VTFNs). article aims understand evolving diversity VTFNs by looking more deeply how community, circular, and territorial-based networks operate. doing so, examines citizens, rural workers, farmers cooperate change create connections between livestock, land, water, other...
We explore the role of farm animals in providing care to different types participants at farms (e.g., youngsters with behavioural problems, people severe mental problems and dementia). Care provide alternative promising settings where can interact compared a therapeutic healthcare setting. performed literature review, conducted focus group meetings carried out secondary data-analysis qualitative studies involving farmers participants. found that are important many have large number potential...
Species-rich grasslands are promoted by public and private actors for reasons of biodiversity, landscape amenity animal health. There is little understanding the considerations farmers when they opt or against species-rich grasslands. We held a workshop with 20 conducted in-depth interviews 15 livestock in Alblasserwaard - Vijfheerenlanden, peat meadow West Netherlands. In these discussions we made an inventory opportunities barriers that experience terms willingness, ability support from...
Rights and access to land are major pressing issues among mainly first-generation agroecological farmers in the Netherlands. Due short-term tenure contracts high prices, these face an insecure future. Because of this, they often unable make long-term ecological investments, such as planting trees taking measures improve soil health. A growing group devising new, more communal forms ownership tenancy, that counter market forces existing policies. In this article, we shed light on farmers’...
Abstract For agricultural and rural development in E urope, multifunctionality is a leading concept that raises many questions. Care farming promising example of multifunctional agriculture has so far received little attention. An issue not been examined thoroughly the strategic mapping different care farm organizations this emerging field. The objective article to develop typology for farms N etherlands provide insight into diversity farms. We have used concepts from organization theory...
This paper describes the development of care farming in Netherlands, one pioneering countries this sector, where has developed into a very diverse with some farmers focussing primarily on agricultural production and others more specifically providing services. Care farms are increasingly open to diversity participants. The sector become professionalised establishment strong regional organisations steady growth increase revenues, employment opportunities boosting economy rural areas. In...
Transformation to sustainable agriculture in the Netherlands is increasingly called for. Agroecology acknowledged as a – potentially transformative alternative for conventional methods of agriculture. However, few farmers adopt agroecological practices. Recent literature suggests failure achieve sustained and transformational change may be due neglectance personal, nonmaterial aspects such processes, also referred "inner" dimensions sustainability. Aiming empirical underpinning, individual...
This study explored how (learning) experiences offered through outdoor experiential programmes, particularly the youth care farm approach, may (or not) enhance young peoples' ability to recognise and then utilise available resources for personal growth, protection health promotion. A total of 11 youngsters were asked look back on their half-year stay a in Netherlands, by using semi-structured interviews elicit from salutogenic perspective. Analysis revealed that several (and interaction...