What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

The progressive loss and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). The onset and progression of PD can be triggered by multiple risk factors, for instance, genetic mutation, environmental exposure, and aging.

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

Bacteria are highly complex and diverse organisms that have adapted to survive in ecological niches ranging from the most extreme to the most heterogeneous environments.

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

An account of the total of material flows going in, out and through Amsterdam.

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

In this thesis unconventional tools based on fluidic interfaces were developed to study the surface and interfacial chemistry of graphene, to characterize the intrinsic properties of graphene, to disentangle the effects of substrate and of the environmental factors, and to improve handling protocols…

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

A scenario building web-tool and knowledge package to enable multi-level decision making for the transition to the Circular Economy

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

In this PhD study, I aim to deepen our understanding of the influence of major mycorrhizal types, namely arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) and ectomycorrhizae (EM), on the global soil carbon cycle and their potential distribution changes under future environmental shifts.

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

Hoewel veel Nederlanders inmiddels netjes hun plasticafval scheiden, belandt nog steeds een beduidend deel uiteindelijk in de oceaan, aldus ecoloog Arnold Tukker. In een interview met de New Scientist vertelt hij waar het mis gaat.

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?

In 2050 moet de overstap naar nieuwe, duurzame energiebronnen zijn voltooid. Wetenschappers van de Universiteit Leiden verrichten vanuit diverse disciplines uniek onderzoek dat bijdraagt aan deze transitie en de reductie van CO2.

Celebrating 20 years of Environmental Research and Education in Northern Cameroon

Security and safety challenges rank among the most pressing issues of modern times. Challenges such as cyber-crime, terrorism, and environmental disasters impact the lives of millions across the globe. The course will introduce you to this broad theme in an increasingly complex world.

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.

By placing food at the centre of investigation, this Minor explores current-day debates on political, environmental, economic and cultural change at both the local and global levels.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

Op maandagavond 18 mei gaf Universitair docent Wimar Bolhuis online ‘Het Corona College’. Op de avond zelf werd dit door ruim 500 mensen bekeken. Er werden veel vragen gesteld en de reacties waren erg positief.

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.

Promotie

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…

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

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…

Overzicht van economische vakken per opleiding, zoals aangeboden door de Afdeling Economie.

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?

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

Het hele pensioenstelsel gaat op de schop. Het is geen eenvoudige materie, maar het is wel heel belangrijk voor je inkomen na je werkende leven. Wordt ons wel genoeg duidelijk gemaakt hoe het hele stelsel werkt?

Collegezaal A0.06 in de Haagse Schouwburgstraat zat vrijdag 27 september bomvol ouders, vrienden en andere geliefden. Maar liefst 61 afgestudeerden kregen er hun diploma Urban Studies, het hoogste aantal in het vierjarig bestaan van de opleiding.

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…