This six week course will consist of a mixture of lectures, field visits, workshops discussions and assignments. It is composed of two modules: the first module consists of a series of lectures from renowned experts in the field that will help you complete the first assignment. The second part takes a bird eye’s view and requires you to take a step back. Also, in this part of the course two experts in the field will guide you, but in a very different way.
The concept of the so-called ‘pathogenic landscapes’ will be introduced with focus on the interactions between land, people, disease vectors, pathogens and their animal hosts. With many people in one place, pathogens can easily and permanently circulate, and quickly jump between livestock, wildlife and humans. Moreover, vectors and vermin, such as mosquitoes and rodents, can simply settle in the environments that humans create.
In this elective, we will also address the topic of a healthy living environment and the choices that we need to make in spatial planning to achieve the best balance between the societal demands in housing, climate adaptation, biodiversity and well-being of the inhabitants and keeping. By using a specific aspect, namely vector borne diseases (such as Lyme disease, malaria, dengue), we will guide you along the pitfalls of this complicated, yet highly insightful problem. We will use insights from tropical countries to show that there is nothing simple about control of vector borne diseases but also visit Nature-based solution in Delft with Floris Boogaard (Hanze), and an impression (November 2025):
An impression (November 2024):
Furthermore, we explore different theoretical perspectives to understand complex socio-ecological problems and how to tackle them through decision tools and governance strategies. The essential parts of this course are to get a general understanding of the main issues concerning the governance of public health issues, exemplified with vector borne diseases, in the context of a the healthy living environment.
In het Nederlands en meer informatie:
“ik wil geen klimaatadaptatie want dan krijg je muggen en teken”, hoor je vaak terwijl juist door de kolkloze straten in wadi-wijken dit risico kan afnemen. In het artikel: “F. Boogaard, M. Schrama, M. Brax, Effecten klimaatvoorzieningen onderzocht, aanleg en beheer bepalen muggen en teken, Land en Water Oktober 2025” staat een tabel die u kunt gebruiken in het gesprek hierover op een bewonersavond of met collega.
Het nieuwe onderzoek KlimAzo (KLIMaatAdaptieve leefomgeving: https://lnkd.in/g3sGZFxS) is gestart met als doel om verspreiding van Zoönotische pathogenen tegen te gaan. Het onderzoek levert praktische richtlijnen op voor ruimtelijke ontwerpers en beheerders om klimaateffectieve en veilige ruimtelijke maatregelen te nemen. Onderzoek met Kenniscentrum Noorderruimte (hanze hogeschool) Deltares, Aeres University of Applied Science Almere (penvoerder), Inholland University of Applied Sciences, HAS green academy in nauwe samenwerking met o.a. RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment en CMV-NVWA en in samenwerking met andere projecten als #BiodiveCity met Wageningen University & Research.
Meer info:
1. Boogaard F, Rody Blom, Eline Boelee, Muggen en Klimaataanpassingen, Land en Water nr.4 april 2021.
2. Boogaard F, Eline Boelee, Frans van de Ven, Klimaatverandering en Gezondheid, Groenblauwe raingardens en muggen, vakblad Riolering, April 2021.
3. H20 (Floris Boogaard, Maarten Schrama & Marieta Braks), Klimaatadaptatie en de ‘dark side of biodiversity’: effecten op muggen en teken, 21 april 2025
4. F. Boogaard, M. Schrama, M. Brax, Effecten klimaatvoorzieningen onderzocht, aanleg en beheer bepalen muggen en teken, Land en Water Oktober 2025
5. KAN klimaatadaptief bouwen mét de natuur: Wadi’s en raingardens: lessons learned, 6 July 2023
More INFO: Presentations, Summer schools and ClimateCafés:
ClimateCafé online met Rody Blom over overwintering van muggen https://lnkd.in/ghxbW64e
* Health Risks Urban Nature based solutions for climate adaptation. (paper & presentation), Urban Transitions November Barcelona 2024 met Eline Boelee en Fred Hartendorf TNO
* International Summer School 2024 One Health and Climate Adaptation, 22 August 2024
* ClimateCafés For #BiodiveCity: Nature-based solutions and vector-borne disease transmission
* ClimateCafés for course PHEC: Public health and the Ecology of Disease
* ClimateCafe Montpellier, October 2025 – Climate Café met oa Sander Koenraadt, Thomas Klomp etc
· https://lnkd.in/gxRiR9RC
* ClimateCafé River Challenge Cebu, April 2025 – Climate Café met oa Rick (T.H.) Heikoop, Doutsen Krol, Eric Boer
* ClimateCafé Groningen, 28 May 2024, The Netherlands – Climate Café met oa Joey Koning, Allard Hans Roest, Sterre Koops, Richard Walters, Gerrit Joustra
* ClimateCafé New Orleans, 17–21 October 2022, USA – Climate Café met oa Daan Rooze en Roelof Stuurman