Today, knowledge is the most crucial element to stimulate organizational competitiveness and economic development.

Onderzoeksproject 'QUAD'

Het onderzoek van de afdeling Economie is ondergebracht bij meerdere facultaire programma's. Het onderzoek van de afdeling richt zich thans met name op sociaal-economische vraagstukken, rechtseconomie en fiscale economie.

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

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…

Although nanoparticles are extensively used in various applications like consumer products and have most probably entered the environment, little is known about the effects of these particles on living organisms.

At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is an ubiquitous part of oil refining that ensures that fuels are cleaned of impurities and environment release of pollutants such as SOx and NOx gasses are minimized.

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

Het kabinet kampt door de stijgende energieprijzen en steeds duurdere boodschappen met grote uitdagingen. Volgens hoogleraar Henk te Velde staan we daarmee aan het begin van een geheel nieuwe politieke situatie, zo vertelt hij in ‘NOS Met het Oog op Morgen’.

Het Bestuursbureau ondersteunt het College van Bestuur en draagt zorg voor de beleids- en besluitvorming.

EXIOBASE is a global, detailed Multi-regional Environmentally Extended Supply and Use / Input Output (MR EE SUT/IOT) database. It was developed by harmonizing and detailing SUT for a large number of countries, estimating emissions and resource extractions by industry, linking the country EE SUT via…

In 2013-2014, CML published over 100 papers, contributed to various international sustainability debates, renovated our building and educated thousands of students from all over the world through our MOOC. These accomplishments and many more are highlighted in this booklet, CML wish you a pleasant…

This study’s main aim is to test whether children’s learning behaviour explains why they do not benefit from a literate environment.

The objective of this study is to better understand the distribution of microplastics in the environment. More specifically, we will quantify the abundance and distribution of microplastics on beaches.

In this course, you will learn about sustainability and staying with the environmental boundaries of our planet. You will gain an understanding of the effects of growing affluence and population growth, the key challenges we are facing, and ways to influence your direct environment.

How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau

De volgende instanties zijn partners van het onderzoeksprogramma

Op vrijdag 8 november 2019, hield Ron Keller, voormalig ambassadeur van Nederland in China, Turkije, Oekraïne en Rusland, een gastcollege bij het Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

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Studievoorlichting

YAL werkt samen met Human Resources (HR) aan de lancering van de Open Dialoogsessies Sociale Veiligheid. We willen bestaande beleidsmaatregelen op het gebied van sociale veiligheid en hun toepassingen samenbrengen met de ervaringen en verwachtingen van onze gemeenschap.

Marlou Schrover is op 1 maart Leo Lucassen opgevolgd als hoogleraar Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis.

Met je mastertitel Psychologie op zak ben je klaar voor de arbeidsmarkt. Wat zijn je beroepsmogelijkheden? Waar vind je afgestudeerde psychologen?

In the search for sustainable energy solutions, the idea of artificial photosynthesis has been proposed as an approach with which to use water and sunlight to produce hydrogen.

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

Leiden University and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management are involved in a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Data-Driven Risk Assessment in Infrastructure Networks'

Soil is a home for an unbelievable diversity and abundance of microbial life that is essential for supporting life on our planet.

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique used to visualize the inside of cells and to study specific protein complexes. Within this thesis, I describe the use of various cryo-EM techniques to gain insight into the structural changes of the human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, as it…

Dr. Helen Pluut heeft een artikel gepubliceerd in het gerenommeerde tijdschrift Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP). Dit in samenwerking met Remus Ilies (National University of Singapore), Petru Curşeu (Open Universiteit en Babeş-Bolyai University) en Yukun Liu (University of…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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…

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

De Afdeling Economie verzorgt onderwijs in verschillende opleidingen.

De 260 jaar oude wetenschappelijke prijs van het Legatum Stolpianum wordt dit jaar toegekend aan twee goed geschreven historische studies van hoge kwaliteit, met actuele betekenis. Een van de winnaars is de Leidse classica Tazuko van Berkel.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga…

The department of Industrial Ecology is dealing with research into the development of tools for decision making on sustainable production and consumption.

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