2,185 search results for “environmental change” in the Public website
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Hai Lin
Science
h.x.lin@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7460
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2193
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legal team supporting Vanuatu’s pursuit of advisory opinion on climate change
Vanuatu, an island nation in the South Pacific, announced last month that it will seek an opinion from the International Court of Justice to clarify the legal obligations of all countries to prevent and redress the adverse effects of climate change.
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Landscape change, community wellbeing and small island contexts
How has landscape and land use changed in these two case studies since independence? What has caused these changes, whether anthropogenic or natural? How do local communities in the areas of study perceive these changes? How can community knowledge be integrated with mapping tools (GIS) to contribute…
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Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change
In Shimmering Images, Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change.
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Milon van Vliet
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.h.m.van.vliet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 NVT
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Valerie de Koeijer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
v.j.c.de.koeijer@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 8206
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Colin Ewen
Faculty of Humanities
c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2148
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Public organisations: changes and their effect on staff and managers
The organisations and people who implement government policy face many different types of change. Academics from Leiden University research how they deal with these and advise them on how best to meet the needs and wishes of society.
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Biographies of Radicalization: Hidden Messages of Social Change
Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a significant rise in terrorist acts and radicalized youth since the appearance of Boko Haram in 2009 and the fall of Libya in 2012. This book investigates the deeper layers of radicalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is situated in a larger global tendency.
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Environmental benefits in transport sector often disappointing
Eco-innovations like more economical cars do not generate the environmental benefits predicted by the manufacturers. This is the result of the so-called rebound effect, concludes Leiden industrial ecologist David Font Vivanco on the basis of new algorithms. PhD defence 3 March.
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Gemeente Leiden: Water and Climate Change. Climate Proofing Industrial Estates
Climate Proofing Industrial Estates: Entrepreneurs’s Participation in the City of Leiden
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Gemeente Leiden: Water and Climate Change. Climate Proofing the Neighbourhood
Climate Proofing the Neighbourhood: Evaluating Citizen’s Participation in the City of Leiden
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Policy-Relevant Indicators for National Consumption and Environment (PRINCE)
PRINCE (for Policy Relevant Indicators for Consumption and Environment) was a three-year project set up to explore ways to improve and expand the set of indicators used to estimate the environmental impacts linked to Swedish consumption, both within Sweden and abroad. Any new methods and indicators…
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Marion Collewet
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.m.f.collewet@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7305
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Sofie Rasmussen
Science
a.s.b.rasmussen@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Angela Caredda
Science
a.m.c.caredda@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Daniel Zumel Gete
Science
d.zumel.gete@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Arjan de Koning
Science
koning@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5653
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Nikki Ikani
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
n.ikani@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9506
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David de Buisonjé
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
d.r.de.buisonje@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5087
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In Search of the Japanese Family: Modernity, Social Change, and Women's Lives in Contemporary Japan
This book project explores the changing dynamics of marriage and family life in postwar Japan based on an examination of the life histories of single mothers.
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BIOMOT: Motivational strength of ecosystem services and alternative ways to express the value of biodiversity
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?
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Sustainable Tuesday: 4 questions for environmental scientist Ranran Wang
On Sustainable Tuesday, two weeks before Dutch Budget Day, the Dutch cabinet receives a suitcase full of sustainable ideas and initiatives. The initiators' aim: to make the government plans for the upcoming year a little more sustainable. At the Leiden Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), assistant…
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Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode
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.
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Minor Creative Strategies for a Society in Change
The minor Creative Strategies for a Society in Change (CSSC) makes a connection between gaining insight into creative processes and exploring social issues that characterize our time.
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Cultural Confluence in Organizational Change: A Portuguese Venture in Angola
This book explores intercultural management challenges in sub-Saharan Africa through a case study of Vasco Silva, a Portuguese businessman in Luanda, Angola.
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Aquatic eDNA: Beyond Species Presence
As a non-invasive genetic method, eDNA based approaches have become an important component of ecologists' and environmental managers' toolkits for biomonitoring in conservation and an increasingly important source of ecological knowledge.
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Baoxiao Liu
Science
b.liu@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5615
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Bertram de Boer
Science
b.f.de.boer@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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On Environmental Guilt: Spring Poetry Competition 2022!
The Leiden University Green Office is pleased to announce its Spring Poetry competition, on the theme: (Environmental) Guilt!
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Arctic: compositional and functional shifts in response to climatic changes
Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml
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Towards a system-based pharmacology approach to predict developmental changes in renal drug clearance in children
Promotores: Prof.dr. C.A.J. Knibbe, Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. K. Allegaert (Leuven)
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First graduates of Master’s Programme Governance of Sustainability
The first generation of Governance of Sustainability master's students has graduated. They received their diplomas during a festive ceremony at Wijnhaven on 17 September. And they will not be the last: The master's programme is only growing in popularity. ‘We are very proud of our first graduates, especially…
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Dynamics of persistence and change in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Isis on the Nile. Egyptian gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
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Indigeneship, bureaucratic discretion, and institutional change in Northern Nigeria
‘Can he do it?’ Since the remarkable victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 Nigerian presidential elections, this has arguably been the most frequently posed question in Nigerian politics.
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The Agta of the Northern Sierra Madre. Livelihood strategies and resilience among Philippine hunter-gatherers
Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold
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Social Science Matters: Climate change
Climate change is a hot topic and constantly in the news. Thousands of Dutch high school students protested at the Malieveld in The Hague. News website Nu.nl has barred climate change deniers from their comments section to prevent ‘fake news’. How does climate change impact the research community, and…
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Ecology of the Ethiopian wolf in a changing landscape: Human carnivore interactions in Afroalpine ecosystems of 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…
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Changing our diet would help absorb global food shocks, such as during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
A plant-based diet could improve the resilience of our food system. Moving to such a diet in the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) alone could replace almost all the production losses from Russia and Ukraine. That’s what an international team of researchers conclude in Nature Food. Leiden…
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Algorithms combat environmental pollution from ships
Did you know that algorithms can help with the prevention of air pollution and ships sinking in the sea? A team of Leiden University researchers have worked together with the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management to look in data-driven inspection of ships. In this interview, Gerrit Jan…
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Resilient Ecosystems and Flourishing Communities
Exploring the Meanings of Lands and Forests as an Avenue for Mutual Development of People and Nature in Ghana
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Zebrafish models for disease and environmental stress
We use zebrafish as a model organism to study human development and disease as well as animal welfare and environmental impact.
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Sustaining total war: Militarisation, economic mobilisation and social change in Japan and Korea (1931-1953)
This project investigates the effects of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) and the Korean War (1950-1953) on the production, distribution, preparation and consumption of food in transwar Japan and Korea.
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Paul Behrens in international media with warning climate change
Environmental researcher Paul Behrens generated both international as national media attention with his recent publication in Nature Energy. The media included Science Daily, Quartz and the Dutch financial newspaper Financieel Dagblad. In his publication, Behrens warns for possible power disruptions…
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A better world begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights
Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.
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Assessing total environmental impact is becoming even more important
Life cycle assessment (LCA) reveals the total environmental impact of products or production processes, and EU rules are going to make this even more important.
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Play by the rules? : coordination of EU sustainable development policies and the importance of the politico-legal context
There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…
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International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining
On Tuesday 26 June Linlin Sun will defend her dissertation entitled ‘International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining’. The dissertation has been written under the supervision of prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver and prof. dr. E.C.P.D.C. De Brabandere.
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'Our plastic use is going to change'
'We have to look for products that can replace ordinary disposable plastics, for example of organic material. Within 20 years, the average plastic use of a household will be largely reduced.' According to Thijs Bosker, Associate Professor at Leiden University College, in Edition NL of Tuesday, October…