1,615 search results for “environmental sustainability” in the Public website
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Imaging polarimetry for the characterisation of exoplanets and protoplanetary discs. Scientific and technical challenges
Promotor: C.U. Keller, Co-Promotor: F. Snik
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Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
Conference
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Summerschool environmental humanities
Lecture
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The Hague Global Futures Hub: Innovation and Collaboration for a Sustainable Future
The Hague Global Futures Hub was officially launched at the Wijnhaven building on Campus The Hague on 10 June. This collaboration between Leiden University and the University of Edinburgh represents a significant step forward in addressing global challenges.
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How meat substitutes in your lasagne can help save the planet
National Meat Free Week, from 11 to 17 March, encourages us to choose the environmentally friendly option more often. But apart from preventing animal suffering, does eating less meat really make much difference? Three questions for Leiden Professor of Industrial Ecology Arnold Tukker.
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Carbon4PUR | Turning industrial waste gases (mixed CO/CO2 streams) into intermediates for polyurethane plastics for rigid foams/building insulation
What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?
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Liveable planet lunch meetings
Join us for Liveable Planet lunch meetings: Liveable communities. We will organise a monthly lunch meeting to inspire and build a sustainability community at the University Leiden.
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EU-FP7 project IDREEM featured on Euronews TV
IDREEM (Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture) is a European research project launched in 2012 to protect the long-term sustainability of European aquaculture. This project has recently been featured on Euronews TV
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals
The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden environmental scientists write in the journal One Earth. However, the national guidelines of other countries face trade-offs, negatively impacting at…
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Hans de Iongh
Science
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Marc van der Meide
Science
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Annemiek de Looze
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Policy Review on Decoupling
Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.
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LUGO Sustainability Day
Conference, Symposium
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Scorescapes, On Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness
This doctoral trajectory explores sound, its image and its role in relating humans and our technologies to the environment.
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BioSustain
Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.
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Research
Urban, Food, Water, Biodiversity, Resources and Energy: these are the main research topics of the Institute of Environmental Sciences. We always strive to be a global leader in our field. And make a real impact with both our research programmes.
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Shivant Jhagroe
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jason Rudall
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Md Faysal Tareq
Science
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Brian McGarry
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Christina Luise Toenshoff
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hilde Woker
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Food
The research within the Food research programme at CML focuses on a transition towards sustainable food production and consumption systems. We investigate from a very small to a very large scale, at a local, national or international level. We do so by researching for example molecular tools, food systems,…
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Mining conflicts
An effective and equitable approach to resource conflicts?
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Themes
Within the Centre we cover several research themes.
- Sustainability Series: Climate Anxiety
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Probing complex problems
Issues such as climate change, the depletion of natural resources or social inequality are too complex to be addressed from a single scientific discipline or by a single country. Leiden University has the expertise to bring the resolution of these enormous problems a small step closer.
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Recommended weighting methods
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…
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How a nationally recommended diet can improve the environment
Changing your diet can improve both your health and the environment. A new study shows that the national dietary recommendations on reducing animal products can reduce environmental impacts in most high-income nations. Publication in PNAS journal.
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Conditions and Criteria
To find out more about the conditions and criteria for participating, please read here.
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Towards Photocatalytic Water Splitting in Homogeneous Solutions Using Molecular Metalloporphyrin Photosensitizers and Catalysts
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…
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Access to Justice in Indonesia
How do poor and disadvantaged Indonesians address the injustices they face in daily life and how can their situation be improved?
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The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945
How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of modernist urban renewal, up to the present-day…
- Institute of Urban Environment
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Global distribution patterns of distinct mycorrhizal types and ecological drivers of these patterns
What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?
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Liveable campus
In 2021, Leiden University will develop a new Sustainability Vision 2030. This vision for the future focuses on the primary tasks of the University: integration and visibility of sustainability in our education and research.
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About this minor
This minor critically examines the complexities of food sustainability through ecological, socio-economic, political, and cultural systems.
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PhD position in 'Effects of Pollution at the Ecosystem Level'
Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)
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Ecosia now available at Leiden University computers
LUGO has some news: If you are using a public computer from Leiden University, you can now set your default search engine to Ecosia.
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Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is an external Advisory Council, to advice the Board of Directors of CML about general strategies, research and education activities and evaluation procedures (Dutch: visitatie).
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Fisheries in the Waza Logone Floodplain. An Analysis of the Status of the Fisheries Sector and Mitigation of Conflicts within the Sector in North
Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh
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Contact
Contact the department of Environmental Biology
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Working paper: 'Export restrictions and policy space for sustainable development: Lessons from trends in the regulation of export restrictions
On 16 January 2018, the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) published Fengan Jiang's (Richard) working paper entitled 'Export restrictions and policy space for sustainable development: Lessons from trends in the regulation of export restrictions (2012-2016)''.
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About the programme
Sustainability issues are often highly complex problems, which can only be understood if you combine knowledge on both natural systems and the communities which need to deal with the issues. Throughout your 3-year Science for Sustainable Societies programme, you learn to analyse complex sustainability…
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Programme structure
Learn about current approaches and ethical issues in heritage management and experience some of these in daily practice.
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Career prospects
Graduates of the master's specialisation in Global Ethnography are proficient in analysing and reporting global vulnerabilities and local forms of resilience.
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The researchers
Professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver and lecturer Maarten Schrama are the founders and managers of the Living Lab. As well as these two researchers, a number of other ecologists and biologists are involved in the research at the Lab.