scholarly journals Knowledge Applications for Life Events: How the Dutch Government Informs the Public about Rights and Duties in the Netherlands

2009 ◽  
pp. 846-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Heller ◽  
Freek van Teeseling
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
The Public

Management of the Dutch Waddensea

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 485-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Vreugdenhil
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hydrological Processes ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
Shallow Sea ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Late Middle Ages

It was not until the late Middle Ages that the sea penetrated far into the interior of The Netherlands, thus flooding three quarters of a million hectares of land. Since then half a million hectares have been reclaimed from the sea. The Dutch Government chose to preserve the remaining quarter of a million hectares of shallow sea with mudflats of the Waddensea as a nature reserve. The management objectives are at one hand to preserve all characteristic habitats and species with a minimal interference by human activities in geomorphological and hydrological processes, and at the other hand to guarantee the safety against the sea of the inhabitants of the adjacent mainland and islands and to facilitate certain economic and recreational uses of the Waddensea without jeopardizing the natural qualities. These objectives are being elaborated in managementplans.

Kaiserdämmerung

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Schabas
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
The Hague

As the war ends, Kaiser Wilhelm leaves Berlin for German military headquarters in Spa, Belgium, where his generals tell him that the troops will not follow him and that his life may even be threatened. He flees to the Netherlands in his private train, possibly after receiving an ‘all clear’ from Queen Wilhelmina. The Dutch Government persuades a local aristocrat, Count Bentinck, to take him in for a few days to his castle in Amerongen, but the visit ends up lasting nearly eighteen months. Britain’s Ambassador to The Hague sends his wife to spy on the Kaiser’s arrival, but attempts without success to conceal her identity from the Foreign Office.

DRIEDIMENSIONAAL NIEUWS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-152
Author(s):  
Tessel X. Dekker
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wax Models

THREE-DIMENSIONAL NEWS The Amsterdam wax museum as a competitor of the illustrated newspaper, 1882-1919 The nineteenth-century wax museum can be viewed as a contemporary mass medium that showed people scenes from the news. The Nederlandsch Panopticum was the first of its kind in the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam between 1882 and 1919. As an informative visual medium, the Panopticum had to compete with other media, like the illustrated newspaper, for the attention of the public. At the same time, the wax museum also depended on photographs published in these same papers: wax models were often, and in the course of time almost exclusively, modelled after photos. This reciprocal relationship can be seen as an example of ‘intermediality’. In the end, the wax museum lost ground, foremost, to the new mass medium of the time, cinema, which took over both as an urban attraction and as a popular visual medium.

A Dutchman in London: reflections of a hospital chief executive from the Netherlands in the NHS

BMJ Leader ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. leader-2021-000509
Author(s):  
Marcel Levi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interesting Insight ◽  
Clinical Point ◽  
High Level

BackgroundThe NHS is a fascinating health care system and is enjoying a lot of support from all layers of British society. However, it is clear that the system has excellent features but also areas that can be improved.Story of selfA number of years as a chief executive in one of London’s largest hospital has brought me a wealth of impressions, experiences, and understanding about working in the NHS. Contrasting those to my previous experience as chief executive in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) provides an interesting insight.ObservationsVery strong features of the NHS are the high level of health care professionals, the focus on quality and safety, and involvement of patients and the public. However, the NHS can significantly improve by addressing the lack of clinical professionals in the lead, curtailing ever increasing bureaucracy, and reducing its peculiar preference for outsourcing even the most crucial activities to private parties. The frequent inability to swiftly and successfully complete goal-directed negotiations as well as the large but from a clinical point of view irrelevant private sector are areas of sustained bewilderment. Lastly, the drive for innovation and transformation as well as the level of biomedical research in the NHS and supported by the British universities is fascinating and outstanding.

Secular–Religious Competition and the Exclusion of Islam from the Public Sphere: Islamic Welfare in Western Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Kortmann
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Religious Competition ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Islamic Organizations

AbstractThis paper deals in a qualitative discourse analysis with the role of Islamic organizations in welfare delivery in Germany and the Netherlands. Referring to Jonathan Fox's “secular–religious competition perspective”, the paper argues that similar trends of exclusion of Islamic organizations from public social service delivery can be explained with discourses on Islam in these two countries. The analysis, first, shows that in the national competitions between religious and secular ideologies on the public role of religion, different views are dominant (i.e., the support for the Christian majority in Germany and equal treatment of all religions in the Netherlands) which can be traced back to the respective regimes of religious governance. However, and second, when it comes to Islam in particular, in the Netherlands, the perspective of restricting all religions from public sphere prevails which leads to the rather exclusivist view on Islamic welfare that dominates in Germany, too.

scholarly journals Development of integrated flower bulb production.

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
P.W.J. Raven ◽  
R. Stokkers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Inorganic Fertilizer ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Nutrient Sources ◽  
Planting Material ◽  
Application Techniques

The Dutch flower bulb market, the aims of the Dutch government to develop more environmentally friendly approaches to agriculture by reducing inputs and emissions, and the economic implications of such a shift in policy to the bulb market are discussed. Reducing pesticide inputs by rotating crops, selecting suitable cultivars and using pathogen-free planting material, reducing inorganic fertilizer inputs by properly assessing the needs of crops and using organically-based nutrient sources, and reducing emissions to the environment by using better application techniques are advocated. Progress in the development of integrated bulb production schemes at 3 experimental farms in the Netherlands (at Sint-Maartensbrug, Hillegon and Zwaagdijk) is discussed. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

scholarly journals Imaginary Controversists: Abraham Gómez Silveyra and the Theologians of the Huguenot Exile

Sefarad ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-475
Author(s):  
Carsten L. Wilke
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
The Public Sphere

In the Huguenot refugee community in The Netherlands, known as a hotbed of the early Enlightenment, literary interest in Judaism was ubiquitous, yet actual Dutch Jews were relegated to a marginal position in the exchange of ideas. It is this paradoxical experience of cultural participation and social exclusion that a major unpublished source allows to depict. The ex-converso Abraham Gómez Silveyra (1651–1741), a merchant endowed with rabbinic education and proficiency in French, composed eight manuscript volumes of theological reflections in Spanish literary prose and poetry. This huge clandestine series, which survives in three copies, shows the author’s insatiable curiosity for Christian thought. While rebutting Isaac Jacquelot’s missionary activity, he fraternizes with Pierre Jurieu’s millenarianism, Jacques Basnage’s historiography, and Pierre Bayle’s plea for religious freedom. Gómez Silveyra, however, being painfully aware of his voicelessness in the public sphere, enacts Bayle’s utopian project as a closed performance for a Jewish audience.

scholarly journals Jacobus Capitein: Champion for Slavery and Resisting Mimic?

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Hendrik L. Bosman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
First Year ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Articles Of Faith ◽  
The University

Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein (1717-1747) was a man of many firsts-the first black student of theology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, the first black minister ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands, the author of the first Fante/Mfantse-Dutch Grammar in Ghana as well as the first translator of the Ten Commandments, Twelve Articles of Faith and parts of the Catechism into Fante/Mfantse. However, he is also remembered as the first African to argue in writing that slavery was compatible with Christianity in the public lecture that he delivered at Leiden in 1742 on the topic, De Servitute Libertati Christianae Non Contraria. The Latin original was soon translated into Dutch and became so popular in the Netherlands that it was reprinted five times in the first year of publication. This contribution will pose the question: Was Capitein a sell-out who soothed the Dutch colonial conscience as he argued with scholarly vigour in his dissertation that the Bible did not prohibit slavery and that it was therefore permissible to continue with the practice in the eighteenth century; or was he resisting the system by means of mimicry due to his hybrid identity - as an African with a European education - who wanted to spread the Christian message and be an educator of his people?

scholarly journals Building a new life and (re)making a family

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 287-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Ruis
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Career Goals ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Family Reunion ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
New Situation ◽  
Occupational Career

This article presents results of a qualitative analysis based on biographic narratives of three young, well-educated women from Syria. They arrived in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017 in the context of family reunion. The central question is how young Syrian women navigate between two major projects that ask for their agency, being family and work. It is argued that both occupational career development and the building of a family are ‘agentic projects’ that aim to contribute to the establishment of a new life and to regain continuity. The analyses demonstrate that both projects are closely intertwined. Agency emerges as highly relational and intersecting with the women’s position in the life course, timing of life events, ability to adapt career goals to the new situation, and impact of social contexts on family relations.

scholarly journals Keeping an Eye on the People: Who Has Access to MPs on Twitter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Spierings ◽  
Kristof Jacobs ◽  
Nik Linders
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
The People ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Twitter is credited for allowing ordinary citizens to communicate with politicians directly. Yet few studies show who has access to politicians and whom politicians engage with, particularly outside campaign times. Here, we analyze the connection between the public and members of parliament (MPs) on Twitter in the Netherlands in-between elections in 2016. We examine over 60,000 accounts that MPs themselves befriended or that @-mentioned MPs. This shows that many lay citizens contact MPs via Twitter, yet MPs respond more to elite accounts (media, other politicians, organized interests,…), populist MPs are @-mentioned most but seem least interested in connecting and engaging with “the” people, and top MPs draw more attention but hardly engage—backbenchers are less contacted but engage more.

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