Do e-waste workers display enhanced effects of adverse health effects due to informal e-waste processing in Nigeria? Is there a difference between the health outcomes of the exposed and the control groups? Are there difference in health effects within and between job groups (collectors, dismantlers,…

For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

Do sustainability values play a role in motivating people to act for biodiversity in successful projects and in successful leadership action? And how could these values be incorporated in current economic valuation methods?

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.

What is movements and corridors of the Bornean pygmy elephant in Sebuku forest? What is the nature of human-elephant conflict in Nunukan District in time and space? What are the diets of the Bornean elephants related to crop raiding?

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…

As Leiden Law students, we are now in the digital age, 'where we believe law and technology should go together.' After all, for us, it is important to look beyond trodden paths of established legal knowledge. The books on law and case law surely will not be sufficient for the lawyer of the future. That…

How can we, together international experts, define future needs of R+D contributions for innovations in the field of risk-based management of chemicals and products in a global perspective using alternative testing strategies to minimize animal tests?

Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

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Promotie

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

Moritz Jesse has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In his MIND-EU Project he will focus on a coherent way to teach Migration, Integration, and Non-Discrimination at Leiden Law School at bachelor and master level.

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…

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

Onderstaand een overzicht van alle vakken die door de afdeling Economie worden verzorgd.

De YAL laat zich horen over beleidskwesties.

Description of 20th century changes in the Dutch flora: Description and interpretation (1999 - 2005)

SEAtrans: an interdisciplinary research project that aims at studying the dynamics and processes of transitions in society-nature interactions in Southeast Asian societies.

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

Participants in this course will learn to support student teachers and new colleagues in their professional development as teachers, with particular emphasis on the context of bilingual or international education, as in the ICLON World Teachers Programme (WTP).

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?

Artificial intelligence algorithms govern in subtle, yet fundamental ways, the way we live and are transforming our societies. The promise of efficient, low‐cost or ‘neutral’ solutions harnessing the potential of big data has led public bodies to adopt algorithmic systems in the provision of public…

New master specialisation: Economics and Governance

What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?

Fellowships are awarded to an international cast of researchers with the purpose of promoting the use of the Special Collections at Leiden University

Hoe kunnen we de uitvoering van EU beleid begrijpen en welke uitdagingen spelen daarbij een rol?

Op 7 december 2021 verdedigde Georgina Kuipers het proefschrift 'Beschadigd vertrouwen'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.mr. W. den Ouden en prof.dr. M.A. van der Steen (EUR).

De Leidse politicologen Yvonne Kleistra en Niels van Willigen hebben het State Department van de Verenigde Staten geadviseerd over beleidsevaluatie. Uitgangspunt daarbij was een wetenschappelijk model dat Kleistra en Van Willigen hebben ontwikkeld op grond van werk voor het Nederlandse Ministerie van…

Hoe weet de overheid of wetenschapsbeleid het gewenste effect heeft? Volgens hoogleraar Barend van der Meulen zijn een variëteit aan kennis over de effectiviteit en goed verzamelen ervan belangrijker dan een strikte wetenschappelijke methode. Oratie op 27 maart.

CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

De afdeling Overheid, Markt en Maatschappij van het Instituut Bestuurskunde onderzoekt hoe politiek en bestuur, bedrijven, burgers en maatschappelijke organisaties samenwerken om grote maatschappelijke uitdagingen aan te pakken. Denk hierbij aan vraagstukken zoals ongelijkheid, migratie en duurzaamh…

In 2020 sloot Campo Alegre, het grote openluchtbordeel op Curaçao. Inmiddels willen verschillende politieke partijen dit bordeel weer openen. Promovenda Mariëlle Kleijn praat hierover op Paradise.fm.

Aan de hand van drie onderzoekslijnen wordt de verbinding tussen zorg en bestuur gemaakt. Binnen deze drie onderzoekslijnen wordt een multi-level benadering gehanteerd. Dat betekent dat we ons richten op vraagstukken op het niveau van het gezondheidszorgstelsel, het niveau van organisaties en netwerken…

Het Instituut Bestuurskunde werkt aan complexe problemen waar de publieke sector in de 21ste eeuw mee te maken heeft: van klimaatbeleid tot de gevolgen van de digitalisering. De onderzoekers van het Instituut Bestuurskunde analyseren, duiden en denken mee over oplossingen voor de maatschappelijke uitdagingen…

In this project of the Center for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) ongoing research is conducted on the history of advice to Dutch central government by so-called State committees from 1814 to 2014. State committees have been installed by Dutch central government since 1814 to provide expert advice, research…

Learning from small data sets in machine learning is a crucial challenge, especially when dealing with data imbalances and anomaly detection. This thesis delves into the challenges and methodologies of learning from small datasets in machine learning, with a particular focus on addressing data imbalances…

De afdeling Beleid en Innovatie van het Instituut Bestuurskunde richt zich op het vormgeven, implementeren en evalueren van beleid met innovatieve benaderingen. Ons doel is om complexe maatschappelijke uitdagingen aan te pakken door technologische vooruitgang en creatieve beleidsinstrumenten te onde…

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Professor Ken Meier is een van de meest vooraanstaande bestuurskundigen van de wereld. Meier is professor Public Management bij Cardiff School of Business (Wales), professor Bureaucracy and Democracy bij Leiden Universiteit, onderzoeker bij Danish Centre for Social Sciences Research (Kopenhagen, Denemarken)…