773 search results for “sustainable development” in the Staff website
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Sarah HinmanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Tim van de MeerendonkFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Simon van LierdeScience
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Zhenyang ChenScience
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Fleur van DuinScience
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Feifei WangScience
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University signs Digital Sustainability Manifesto: ‘We need a Delta Plan’
Digitalisation can make a huge contribution to a greener future, but it must also be as sustainable as possible. To make significant progress, more collaboration and national leadership will be needed. Leiden University has therefore signed the Digital Sustainability Manifesto, which was presented on…
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture
Dutch greenhouse horticulture is a world leader when it comes to innovative capacity and sustainability, but ‘the challenges are great in terms of energy, water, environment and biodiversity,’ says Peter van Bodegom, coordinator of AgriFood at the Centre for Sustainability of the Leiden, Delft, Erasmus…
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How can local policies contribute to global sustainability goals?
The challenges of building a sustainable society are unprecedented. But the Dutch municipalities cannot be faulted for their commitment. They are working hard, conclude Professor Eefje Cuppen and Lian Merkx, programme manager for energy at the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG). To exchange…
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Kiki Zanolie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anna van DuijvenvoordeFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Arnout KoornneefFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Are tropical forests threatened by democracy?
Democracy may lead to more deforestation in the tropics. So write environmental scientist Joeri Morpurgo and his colleagues in the prominent scientific journal Biological conservation. They found that competitive elections are associated with more loss of tropical rainforest than elections without competition.…
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Agnieszka KazimierczukAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Students seek sustainable solutions for businesses
Master’s students in Industrial Ecology and Governance of Sustainability have helped answer organisations’ questions about sustainability
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A better world begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights
Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.
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New minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food ‘A full spectrum analysis of global society’
In September 2023 the new minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food starts. This minor critically examines the complexities of food sustainability through ecological, socio-economic, political, and cultural systems.
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Teacher development
Leiden University considers good education to be of paramount importance. That is why we invest in our teachers’ professional development, to ensure that their teaching methods continue to match the needs of individual students.
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Andrea SpruijtFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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David ZetlandFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kiki SpaninksScience
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Evelien UrbanusFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Christine MummeryFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Sheila van BerkelFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Barbara GravendeelScience
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Jimena Pacheco MirandaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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George MileyScience
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Marja Oudega
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Liza van den BoschFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nienke WieringaICLON
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Marieke BosFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Zijian LiFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
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Inge van der WeijdenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Shannon YuenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ili MaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ana Arias CalvoScience
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‘The battle for sustainability won’t be won in the civil courts’
Fossil Free against KLM on greenwashing, municipalities against Chemours on PFAS discharge, climate cases against Shell and ING Bank… There are many examples of recent civil lawsuits on sustainability. But does climate litigation in the civil courts actually have an effect?
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Further development
Further development
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Hunt for cheap metals that help store sustainable energy
Storing energy is one of the biggest challenges in the energy transition. Hydrogen could be a solution. Chemist Daan den Boer is researching how to make the chemical reaction needed to store energy in hydrogen as cheap and efficient as possible.
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IIASL present at launch of sustainability initiative Net Zero Space
On Friday 12 November 2021, the Net Zero Space initiative was launched at the Paris Peace Forum. The International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL) of Leiden University is one of the first supporters to the initiative.
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New Leiden Law School’s ‘Sustainability’ website
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NWO grant gives way to more sustainable production of antibiotics
The opportunity to explore a new, exciting research topic. That is how Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski describes his successful application for the NWO XS grant. It comprises 50,000 euros, which the researcher from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) will spend on investigating a more sustainable…
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Dietsje JollesFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hanna Swaab
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marga Sikkema-de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sustainable City Lab will ‘set to work on sustainability in our own backyard’
The Sustainable City Lab The Hague will be a hub that connects organisations in The Hague that work on sustainability with the research and teaching at Leiden University. ‘We’re going to set to work on complex sustainability challenges in our own backyard,’ says project leader Eefje Cuppen.
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Smart data for sustainable agriculture: less hassle, more green
In supermarkets, consumers are drowning in a sea of sustainability labels. Confusing for them, but also farmers can't see the forest for the trees. Obtaining these labels demands an enormous amount of time and effort. Berent Baris is investigating ways to simplify this process, benefiting both farmers…