Publications
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Chapter 1 De toekomst van de sociale (on)zekerheid
(2016)
Lang ging het debat over de toekomst van de sociale zekerheid vooral over de vraag wat er aan technische aanpassingen aan het stelsel aangebracht
moeten worden. Inmiddels dienen zich twee fundamentelere vragen
aan. ...
Chapter Het VOC-verleden van Cornelis Pronk en Thomas Hope – Chinees porselein en Sri Lankaans roofgoed als stille getuigen
(2024)
This article deals with two objects of art and history. They are considered here as silent witnesses of the VOC antecedents of two Dutch Mennonites in Amsterdam: Cornelis Pronk and Thomas Hope. They were employed by the ...
Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy
(2002)
Pottery made in the aegean during the Late Bronze Age has been found widely distributed in many parts of the Mediterranean. At some four hundred sites outside Greece, Mycenaean dinner and storage vessels, as well as some ...
Braving Troubled Waters
(2009)
Dwindling fish stocks, changing markets and often ill-advised government intervention have affected the lives of Dutch fishermen for decades. The author of this study has spent years among the fishermen of the Dutch island ...
International Migration in Europe
(2008)
Over the past twenty years international migration issues have gained a growing importance in public debate in most of the European countries. Public opinions are more and more concerned about the arrival of new immigrants ...
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation
(2007)
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This ...
The Company that Changed Itself
(2007)
The role of industrial research in the development of the company that sponsors it is an essential question. This book takes up this question in an historical perspective with a case study of the Dutch chemical company ...
The Company that Changed Itself
(2007)
The role of industrial research in the development of the company that sponsors it is an essential question. This book takes up this question in an historical perspective with a case study of the Dutch chemical company ...
Onzekere veiligheid
(2008)
New technologies, climate change, infectious diseases and major crises like the BSE-affair make us realize that our knowledge of risks threatening our society is very limited. The shaping of the responsibilities of our ...
Landscape Biographies
(2014)
Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which ...