3,475 search results for “environmental sciences” in the Public website
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Nanne Timmer
Faculty of Humanities
n.timmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2184
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Emma Grootveld
Faculty of Humanities
e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2069
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Marika Keblusek
Faculty of Humanities
m.keblusek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2360
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Positioning of current Environmental tools & an outlook to the future
Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.
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Ecological functions and environmental fate of exopolymers of Acidobacteria
Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.
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Faculty of Science
Explore the unknown in order to be able to innovate in the distant future.
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The environmental rebound effect: a new paradigm for an old challenge. The case of transport eco-innovation
What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?
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Science and society Faculty of Science Leiden
We also conduct research to make meaningful contributions to society. For instance, by talking about our research, contributing to community projects or by inviting people to help us with our research. Scroll down and discover how Science and Society can mutually reinforce each other.
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Design for the Future: Wicked Environmental Problems in Sustainability and Health
How do we approach education that facilitates creative confidence for students that leads to innovative solutions to society’s present day and future sustainability challenges? This education research project tackles a sustainability dilemma faced by households in everyday life viz.
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Margaret Gold
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.j.gold@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Environmental and metabolomic study of antibiotic production by actinomycetes
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel
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Polar auxin transport: translating environmental signals into plant developmental responses
1. What is the exact role of PIN proteins in PAT? 2. How is PIN polarity established, and how is it modulated by AGC kinase-mediated phosphorylation? 3. What is the role of the AGC kinase, as modulators of PAT, in translating environmental signals, such as gravity, light or mechanical stress, to plant…
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Rosanne van der Voet
Faculty of Humanities
r.van.der.voet@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Neurobiological and Environmental Determinants of Parenting and Child Development
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Science
The Faculty of Science
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Symposium 40 years CML: Scientists should speak up
In 2018, the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), born out of activism, exists for forty years. The institute celebrated this on 28 June in the Stadsgehoorzaal in Leiden. In the morning, proud directors and researchers looked back and forth. After this several experts discussed the current environmental…
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About Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science is located at the Leiden Bio Science Park. It was founded more than two centuries ago and currently, more than 8000 people are working and studying at the eight institutes.
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Kaushar Kagzi
Science
k.kagzi@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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LUC 101: Get to know our Liberal Arts & Sciences Programme!
Study information, LUC 101 | Information Session
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Anniek Kortleve
Science
a.j.kortleve@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Plant Sciences
The mission of the Plant Sciences cluster is to contribute to the sustainable production of high-quality crops, flowers and high-value bio-based products, and to contribute to the maintenance and restoration of biodiversity in natural ecosystems. This is realised by generating fundamental knowledge…
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Thijs Bosker on NPO Radio 1: Plastic pollution in Antarctica
On Friday morning, 8 June, Thijs Bosker, Associate Professor at Leiden University College, was interviewed by NPO Radio 1 on plastic pollution in Antartctica: ''Anually, an additional 4 - 12 billion kilos of plastic ends up in our ocean''.
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the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement
Dario Fazzi
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Avoiding conflict after the cyclone: Land rights and environmental displacement in Central Mozambique
This socio-legal research focuses on the impacts of environmental displacement on land rights and land-related conflict in Mozambique in the aftermath of cyclone Idai, and on the role of the legal framework in addressing these problems.
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Thijs Bosker on NOS Jeugdjournaal about plastic pollution and microplastics
On Friday evening 8 June, Thijs Bosker, Associate Professor at Leiden University College (LUC), was on television in NOS Jeugdjournaal about plastic pollution and microplastics
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Environmental assessment and guidance for the future offshore wind energy development
This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.
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Earth, Energy and Sustainability (BSc Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
At the start of the 20th century there were fewer than 2 billion people. Now at over 7 billion, Earth’s population is on target to reach 8 billion by 2027. How has this dramatic increase in human population impacted Earth’s life support systems and natural resources? How should we understand the meaning…
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UNravelling the socioeconomic and environmental Impacts of Circularity in Latin America (UNICA)
A MSCA Global Fellowship that aims to explore the socioeconomic and environmental implications of a Latin America circularity transition, and its impact on the EU and global economy.
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Responding to environmental cues: the adaptive qualities of chromatin compaction proteins
Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-Promotor: R. T. Dame
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Science for Sustainable Societies (BSc)
How do you involve a local community to tackle biodiversity loss? How do you create awareness and political movement on climate change? And how do you find a balance between environmental impacts and economic needs when it comes to pollution? These are examples of core questions at the heart of a new…
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Plant Sciences
The mission of the Plant Science research programme is to contribute to the sustainable production of high quality crops, flowers and high-value bio-based products. This is realised by generating fundamental knowledge of basic biological processes related to development of plants and their interaction…
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Deepening the uncertainty dimension of environmental Life Cycle Assessment: addressing choice, future and interpretation uncertainties.
LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.
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Tenth Easter Island conference focuses on reconciliation
The tenth International Conference on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and the Pacific will be a special edition with a focus on reconciliation. The fatal shooting in 1722 will be remembered, when the Dutch shot and killed ten Easter Islanders. The conference will be held in Leiden from 19 to 24 June.
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the interaction between spatiotemporal patterns and agri-environmental management
Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters
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Health Data Science
Health research, medical practice and consequently the whole population is increasingly affected by digitization, data science and AI.
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Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
Lecture
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Wouter Kalf
Faculty of Humanities
w.f.kalf@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2232
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Genetic and environmental factors determining heterogeneity in preservation stress resistance of Aspergillus niger conidia
Fungal food spoilage often starts with a contamination with spores. Experimental data strongly indicate the existence of subpopulations of spores with different levels of resistance to preservation methods.
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methodology for assessing the effective dose of nanomaterials for environmental risk assessment purposes
How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?
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Fate, accumulation and ecotoxicity of copper nanoparticles under environmentally relevant conditions
Fate and toxicity of copper nanoparticles was related to the water chemistry of the environment and pristine size.
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Animal Sciences
We perform multidisciplinary research at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels of animal biology to increase fundamental understanding of health and disease.
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Jan Willem Erisman reinforces Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability
How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable society? As of 1 September, nitrogen expert Jan Willem Erisman will be working on these questions at Leiden University: he will exchange the Louis Bolk Institute…
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The International Legal Protection of Environmental Refugees. A human rights-based, security and State responsibility approach
On 7 May 2020, Jolanda van der Vliet defended her thesis 'The International Legal Protection of Environmental Refugees. A human rights-based, security and State responsibility approach'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.J. Schrijver and Prof. J.J.C. Voorhoeve.
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Co-benefits & Co-damages of environmental policies related to climate change and long-range transboundary air pollution
Using the principles of Industrial Ecology in Environmental Policy making in two cases: transition to a hydrogen economy and chlorinated compounds.
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Family of footprints gives more complete picture of environmental damage
The world abounds with different footprints that calculate human impact on the environment. Environmental specialist Kai Fang is the first person to have developed a family of footprints that allow better measurement of environmental damage and the depletion of natural sources. PhD defence on 24 Nov…
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Paul Behrens
Science
p.a.behrens@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Global distribution patterns of distinct mycorrhizal types and ecological drivers of these patterns
What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?
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Mardet van Gennip
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
mgennip@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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?