Kunnen landen bij gebrek aan een sterk internationaal kader voor milieubescherming unilateraal optreden om het wereldwijde milieu te beschermen?

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

Indicators to measure progress in de-linking economic growth and environmental pressure.

This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-Promotor: R. T. Dame

Promotie

A new environmental accounting framework using externality data and input-output tools for policy analysis.

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

Bij Cambridge University Press (CUP) verscheen onlangs van Ingrid Leijten het boek Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Het boek maakt onderdeel uit van de serie Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy en heeft als onderwerp de bescherming van sociaaleconomische rechten…

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Muster

Lezing

Fungal food spoilage often starts with a contamination with spores. Experimental data strongly indicate the existence of subpopulations of spores with different levels of resistance to preservation methods.

How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?

Hoe beinvloedt economisch verval de democratische waarden en verhoudingen tussen groepen in Africa?

Op 7 mei 2020 verdedigde Jolanda van der Vliet proefschrift 'The International Legal Protection of Environmental Refugees. A human rights-based, security and State responsibility approach'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof.dr.ir. J.J.C. Voorhoeve.

Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Rok Spruk onderzoeken de bijdrage van institutionele hervormingen aan economische groei.

Material outflows from industrial economies.

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important.

In 2015, CML published over 70 papers, contributed to the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, won awards and advised the Dutch government on the safe use of pesticides. CML awarded 11 PhDs and taught students from all over the world how to contribute to sustainability. We wish you…

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

Wat zijn de belangrijkste thema's in het uitvoeren van systemen voor bio-energie ?

Er zijn wereldwijd vele open (leer)materialen beschikbaar, maar deze worden nog niet of zeer beperkt gebruikt in het onderwijs.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

CERA (CErtification of RAw Materials) is a four-year project that will develop a standardized certification scheme ensuring environmental, social and economic sustainability in extraction, processing, trading and manufacturing of all mineral raw materials. It will guarantee traceability of certified…

New master specialisation: Economics and Governance

Dit project onderzoekt hoe en waarom Nederlandse ondernemers betrokken waren bij de uitbuiting van de Engelse, Franse en Iberische rijken.

Indonesia is experiencing various environmental challenges related to its fast economic growth. Therefore, it is necessary to have measurable and applicable indicators to obtain accurate data and information regarding the costs of adverse environmental impacts arising from economic activities to support…

Some examples of research questions include: What framework of circular strategies should local practitioners use? How should practitioners organize their monitoring of the circular economy activities in the region of interest? What are the main products that have the most circular potential in the…

Freshwater is an important resource, but at a great risk of species decline due to habitat loss, pollution and over-exploitation, and invasive alien species.

Accumulation of metals in economy and environment and its associated risks, within the Netherlands and the EU.

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Masterdag vrijdag 4 november 2016

BioSolar Cells is a five-year research project in which ten knowledge institutions and 45 private industries work together.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

De Environmental Sciences Research Prize 2012 is uitgereikt aan CML onderzoeker David Font Vivanco door de Environmental Scientists Association van Catalonië.

Do Ethiopian wolves change their diet and foraging strategy in the landscape under different land uses? How land use affect Afro-alpine rodent Communities? How important are Afro-alpine natural resources utilisation for local livelihoods? What is the human perception of conflict in the Afro-alpine a…

What is the environmental impact of different waste collection systems across Europe? How can the collection be improved when considering collection, sorting, and treatment, as well as use options for secondary materials?

Exploring the Meanings of Lands and Forests as an Avenue for Mutual Development of People and Nature in Ghana

The project falls in the context of the EU Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (COM(2005)670). The Institute for Environment and Resources (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed three sets of decoupling indicators. Such indicators require the definition of a…

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)

The role of material production as a driver of environmental impacts is increasing, which calls for a better understanding of global material flows. This thesis explores the role of in-use stocks of products, buildings and infrastructure as a key driver of global material demand and discusses the implications…