01 Flanders Hydraulics
zowel direct effect evalueren (expert judgement, optioneel XBeach afslag rechte kust), als indirect effect (toepassen Van Rijn formule voor inschatten effect op longshore transport variatie)
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For the longest time, the language used in legal texts has been subject to severe criticism: legal texts are written in a difficult, archaic language, and their structure is near to inaccessible. However, this ascertainment has never lead to anything more than just that: there is hardly any concrete advice to make changes, and hardly any systematic research into this problem has been done.
The aim of this research is to make a first ...
Government enacts a flight plan, but it increases noise pollution, or, a company takes an economic risk, but it turns out badly. Can a court say they should have taken another decision? This addresses the problem to which extent courts can intervene with freedom of action. Four types of attitudes can be distinguished: three restrict the scope of review, while the fourth allows the judge to intervene fully. Belgium and the Netherlands apply a ...
The FWO research project “Debt or Sin?” starts from the hypothesis that the current moral confusion regarding debt and credit started already long before the present European debt crisis, or, for that matter, the rise of classical economics in the 18th century. It assumes that the principle that debts must be repaid and promises honored was elevated by moral theologians and jurists into a fundamental principle for organizing market ...
MEDIRAD aims to enhance the scientific bases and clinical practice of radiation protection (RP) in the medical field and thereby addresses the need to understand and evaluate the health effects of low dose ionising radiation exposure from diagnostic and therapeutic imaging and from off-target effects in radiotherapy (RT). MEDIRAD will pursue 3 major operational objectives: First, it will improve organ dose estimation and registration to ...
In recent years, some of the largest multinationals have attracted significant attention for minimising their tax burden via so-called aggressive tax planning (ATP) practices. Aggressive tax planning (ATP) is an umbrella concept, which covers a range of situations in which a taxpayer takes advantage of the technicalities of the tax system in order to reduce his tax liability. Studies have indicated that ATP has negative consequences for ...
De vrije markt en de democratie laten ons toe om gefaalde projecten te liquideren, dit d.m.v. respectievelijk het insolventierecht en een jaarlijkse stemming over de begroting. Beide instituties faciliteren zo een evolutief leerproces. Twee sectoren, met name overheden en banken, worden door verschillende mechanismes de facto beschermd tegen dit evolutieve proces. Voorbeelden van zo’n insolventieprikkel-dempende mechanismes zijn het ...