What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

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

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…

Masterdag vrijdag 4 november 2016

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

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

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

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

Professor Simon Portegies Zwart ontvangt van NWO een half miljoen euro vanuit de NWO-middelgroot ronde. Het geld is bestemd voor zijn onderzoek 'The Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment' (AMUSE).

Dit artikel gaat in op de onderzoekskloof door te onderzoeken hoe deze instanties hun personeel zo kunnen inzetten dat ze maximale prestaties leveren met het personeel dat ze hebben.

Safety issues of the transport and storage of Chlorine, ammonia and LPG.

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

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…

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

We strive to address the challenge of constructing a modeling language to write software which can take advantage of recent hardware developments (multicore, cloud) without compromising in its abstraction levels.

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

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

Begrijpen van het evoluerende landschap van extremisme in de 21e eeuw.

Europese burgers worden geconfronteerd met uitdagingen op het gebied van globalisering, migratie, technologische ontwikkelingen en klimaatverandering. Deze uitdagingen vergen het uiterste van onderlinge internationale en intergenerationele solidariteit, wat rechtstreeks betrekking heeft op de grondslagen…

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?

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

De eerste index om de veiligheid, duurzaamheid en circulariteit van producten te meten, waarmee ze het EU-kader (SSbD) operationaliseren.

Op woensdag 15 september promoveert Jinxian Wang op haar proefschrift: Trends in social assistance, minimum income benefits and income polarization in an international perspective.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12.30-14.00

This thesis takes steps toward understanding the interaction between gas-phase and solid-state molecules in star- and planet-forming regions.

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

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

Iris Houben en Hetty ten Oever hebben een bijdrage geschreven voor het boek Socio-Economic Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision. In hun bijdrage onderzoeken zij de relatie tussen de verplichtingen inzake publieke dienstverlening in de EU wetgeving (PSO’s) en de mensenrechten.

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…

Dit proefschrift gaat over de bescherming van sociaaleconomische belangen onder de klassiek geformuleerde grondrechten die zijn neergelegd in het Europees Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens (EVRM; Verdrag).

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

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…

Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Workshop, 21-22 June On 21-22 June, Dr. C.V. Weeda (Leiden University) and Marie-Louise Leonard (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia) organize a workshop on Worker's health and material environment in Port Cities. The workshop focuses on interdisciplinary discussion. ReMA-students are given the opportunity…

Promotor: B. van de Water

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

Hoe worden nachtruimtes verbeeld, geproduceerd, ervaren en verteld door migrantengemeenschappen in Europa? Dit onderzoeksproject onderzoekt deze vraag in acht Europese steden: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlijn, Cork, Galway, Lissabon, Londen en Rotterdam.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

OB associations are loose groups of young, massive stars. They constitute the last stage of the massive starformation process, and the context in which new stars are formed.

Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.

Ethiopian wolves are endangered diurnal Afroalpine rodent hunters. I investigated the interaction between wolves, rodents and human land use in Borena Sayint National Park (BSNP), Abune Yosef and Aboi Gara in Ethiopia.

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…