2,023 search results for “sustainability” in the Public website
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How a local shaman can help fight climate change
Who knows more about environmental governance: a professor of natural resource governance or a local shaman in the remote uplands of Myanmar?
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Footprint family: Concepts, classification, integration, and benchmarking against planetary boundaries
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…
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Webinar minor Sustainable Chemistry and Biotechnology
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Environmental Biology
This research programme aims to increase the scientific understanding of how current and emerging anthropogenic threats affect biodiversity and ecosystem services to facilitate strategic management of natural resources. To this end, we address urgent challenges in relation to the mechanisms involved…
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LDE Joint Minor Sustainable Chemistry and Biotechnology
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Stephanie Cap
Science
s.cap@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hazem Eltohamy
Science
h.t.m.m.eltohamy@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tessa Minter
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
mintert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3816
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Jelmer Schalk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.schalk@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Jiahui Wang
Science
j.h.wang@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sjoerd Lopik
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.j.lopik@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Oliver Taherzadeh
Science
o.a.taherzadeh@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Erik Bähre
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
ebaehre@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3997
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Inge Schrijver
Science
i.m.schrijver@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jan Boersema
Science
boersema@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5650
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Horst Fischer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.fischer@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Meng Li
Science
m.li@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5615
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Xiaoyang Zhong
Science
x.zhong@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5148
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Susan van den Brink
Science
s.van.den.brink@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Min Cho
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.j.cho@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9503
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Sabine Luning
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
sluning@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6614
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Levon Amatuni
Science
l.t.amatuni@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7166
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Marco Cinelli
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.cinelli@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9020
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Nils Thonemann
Science
n.thonemann@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sander ten Caat
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
s.ten.caat@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Marin Visscher
Science
m.r.visscher@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Sustainability
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- LUGO Sustainability Day: 9 May 2023
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Marginal Lands? The Commodification and Re-appreciation of Upland Agriculture in the Borderlands of Northeast India
How does the commodification and re-appreciation of the contiguous uplands of Northeast India, Bangladesh and Burma/Myanmar transform the relationship between these states and their upland citizens?
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
d.a.dam@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7944
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Marc van der Meide
Science
m.t.van.der.meide@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Hans de Iongh
Science
h.h.de.iongh@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7461
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Annemiek de Looze
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.m.m.de.looze@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Report: what does our urban mine have to offer?
On 21 January, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) has released two reports on circular economy and urban mining in the Netherlands. In them, together with Statistics Netherlands, they take stock of part of the Dutch ‘urban mine’: how much raw material can we reuse from the electricity grid,…
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How EU farm subsidies favour high-emission animal products
More than 80 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies go to the production of animals or animal feed. These products are responsible for 84 percent of the EU’s food-related greenhouse gas emissions. That is revealed in a new study by three Leiden researchers published in Nature Food. ‘If we continue…
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Development of life cycle assessment for residue-based bioenergy
What are the key issues in conducting LCA of bioenergy systems? What is the environmental sustainability status of second generation bioethanol? How much would the final results of biogenic carbon neutrality assumptions deviate from the true values based on a complete inventory? How to assess the impact…
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Vincent Delhomme discusses upcoming EU food labelling reforms
Front-of-pack nutrition labelling, origin labelling, regulation of voluntary green claims made by food business operators: the EU is currently looking into various reforms of the legal framework for food information to consumers. The goal: healthier and more sustainable diets.
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The recent IPCC report: some reactions from our Liveable planet community
The publication of the recent IPCC report on climate change has not gone unnoticed, to put it mildly, certainly not within the Liveable Planet community.
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Students make CO2 calculator
Two students from the Leiden-Delft MSc Industrial Ecology programme have made a carbon footprint calculator for the website www.doemaarduurzaam.nl; the website where the Dutch public broadcasting organisations collect everything broadcasted about sustainability. The carbon footprint calculator allows…
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Nitrogen professor hands over book to nitrogen minister
Strengthening nature and at the same time investing in future-proof agriculture. That is the task of the Minister for Nature and Nitrogen, Christianne van der Wal. It is also the lifework of Leiden professor Jan Willem Erisman. He has been researching nitrogen for his entire career and has shown that…
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Leiden alternative to plastic microparticles wins second prize in European student competition
A team of students from Leiden and Groningen took the second prize at the European final of the BISC-E sustainability competition. Last June, the team had already won the Dutch finals. The students came up with ‘Suckerspheres’, a natural alternative to the plastic micro-particles that are still frequently…
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How meat substitutes in your lasagne can help save the planet
National Meat Free Week, from 11 to 17 March, encourages us to choose the environmentally friendly option more often. But apart from preventing animal suffering, does eating less meat really make much difference? Three questions for Leiden Professor of Industrial Ecology Arnold Tukker.
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Greenifying industrial biotechnology through the creation of synthetic endosymbionts
Is it possible to synthesize industrially relevant compounds in a sustainable manner through the use of light-capturing cyanobacteria?
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Fisheries in the Waza Logone Floodplain. An Analysis of the Status of the Fisheries Sector and Mitigation of Conflicts within the Sector in North
Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh
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Dietary guidelines in these six countries are a win-win-win for nutrition, environment, and animals
The national dietary guidelines in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia benefit nutrition, environment and animal welfare, Leiden environmental scientists write in the journal One Earth. However, the national guidelines of other countries face trade-offs, negatively impacting at…
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On Campus Master's Experience Day Governance of Sustainability
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Sustainability Challenge Course - Student Presentations - Industrial Ecology MSc
Debate, Student Course Presentations
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Sustainability Challenge Course - Student Presentations - Industrial Ecology MSc
Debate, Student Course Presentations
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Student for a Day Governance of Sustainability MSc
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Using fungi to produce renewable energy
Ebru Alazi ‘hacked’ an enzyme-producing system in the fungus Aspergillus niger in order to produce renewable energy more easily. She manipulated the fungus, making it produce more pectinases: enzymes mainly used in the food industry and in the production of renewable energy, such as biofuels. Promotion…