1,207 search results for “environmental politics and policy” in the Student website
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Former student Aoife in Glasgow: 'I urged Rutte to limit global warming'
Aoife Fleming attended the climate summit in Glasgow as UN Youth Delegate for the Netherlands. She recently graduated with a master’s degree in Financial Law.
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Why has Western Policy failed on Palestine/Israel?
Debate
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Leiden researchers explain shock PVV victory
Geert Wilders and his PVV party have won the 2023 elections. What was the deciding factor for this victory?
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LUF-SVM Fund
Master
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‘In the heel, not the head’: the sensory know-how of skateboarders
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Talking Palestine: The Politics of Narrating the Conflict
Lecture
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Randal SheppardFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Aleena KarimFaculty of Humanities
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'I always consider: What would have worked best for me?'
Starting with the ‘why’, putting herself in her students’ shoes and providing structure. These are three ways in which environmental scientist Ranran Wang tries to make her course as interesting and manageable as possible. With success: she has been nominated for Science Teacher of the Year 2022.
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Jennifer SweridaFaculteit Archeologie
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Mohit KhubchandaniFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Internships and research in the Netherlands
How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?
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‘Vastgelopen formatie te wijten aan afrekencultuur'
Expert in public affairs and politics Arco Timmermans advised the informer Kim Putters.
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system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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Migration policy of the European Union: what lies ahead?
Lecture, Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…
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Smoke on the Water: Ocean Incineration as a Struggle for Environmental Justice
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Environmental Humanities LU: Species literacy and the cultural portrayal of animal biodiversity
Lecture
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Adina Akbik wins Student-led Teaching Award
This September, Adina Akbik received the Political Science Teaching Award at Leiden University. Created by student members of the Bachelor's and Master's Programme Committees (OLC), the award recognises remarkable teaching at the Institute. Akbik was chosen from five finalists after receiving several…
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How does the European Union deal with distinctiveness?
On 31 January 2024, Alex Schilin defended his dissertation ‘United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Economic and Monetary Union during the Sovereign Debt Crisis.’ What motivated him to research this specific topic, and how did he tackle this project? And…
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Faculty and study programme regulations
At faculty and study programme level there are various regulations in place to ensure that everything runs as it should. For example, there are thesis and faculty regulations, as well as rules and guidelines on assessments, exams, degree classifications and plagiarism.
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Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Membership of foreign academies is incredible recognition'
When Petra Sijpesteijn became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, she was the only Dutch member with an appointment at a Dutch university. Two years later, she is also the only Dutch member of the Austrian Academy and officially joined the British Academy on 7 October.
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Just to be sure... At any cost?
Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as political philosopher Josette Daemen has done, you realise that security sometimes comes at the expense of other important goods, such as freedom and equality.…
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Israeli Politics Now
Debate
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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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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'We are already going to see this effect of the coalition agreement in the coming weeks'
Few details, relatively few words. The coalition agreement presented is one of the shortest in the past 20 years, Arco Timmermans knows. Consequently, the outlines were not negotiated for very long, which has its advantages and disadvantages. 'Over the next few weeks, we are mainly going to see the…
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Our government should be more resilient
A fragmented political landscape, permanent pressure from current affairs and an increasingly political civil service: our government faces many challenges. This makes it all the more difficult to make important decisions about pensions or the climate. Research and good education can help meet the challenges…
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Ali MohammadFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Federica CasanoFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Joana CookFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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‘If you want to understand China, read what Chinese scholars are writing’
Contrary to what one might expect, societal actors influence China’s foreign policy. PhD candidate Sabine Mokry investigated how Chinese academics and think tanks impact the authoritarian leadership’s views on what constitutes the country’s national interest in the international arena. On 14 November…
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Antoaneta DimitrovaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jennifer DowlingFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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M. Revello Lami-Faculteit Archeologie
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Tim Kaasjager: 'If you know you can make a unique contribution, you just have to start'
Trail, FGGA’s online internship platform, exists one year in November. High time to get to know the organisations making use of Trail. What do these organisations stand for? What tasks do interns have? And what have FGGA students to offer?
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From Tenochtitlan to Ciudad de México: Colonial Urban Legacies and Environmental Consequences
Event
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Gaza: Humanitarian and Political Challenges
Lecture