How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

Indonesia is experiencing various environmental challenges related to its fast economic growth. Therefore, it is necessary to have measurable and applicable indicators to obtain accurate data and information regarding the costs of adverse environmental impacts arising from economic activities to support…

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

Analytical tools for environmental design and management in a systems perspective. The combined use of analytical tools.

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…

Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

Principles of Environmental Sciences provides a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living and non-living environment and mankind. Both the analysis of such problems and the way solutions to environmental…

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

Natural resources are becoming increasingly scarce. If we want to maintain our current standard of living, we will need inventive solutions. The researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) share their thoughts on how to achieve a fully circular economy in which as little use as possible…

A python3 package to create and analyze Circular Economy scenarios.

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

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Environmental Humanities is one of the LUCAS research themes, bringing together members of the three LUCAS clusters.

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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…

PhD candidates carry out a programme of independent research and additional (limited) course work, culminating in production of a PhD thesis in typically 4 years.

In the absence of stringent and coordinated international action, States might seek alternatives to promote environmental protection unilaterally.

Leiden University is aware of its role in society and wants to create a green, healthy and inclusive campus and have a positive impact on the field of climate and circularity.

Starting with the ‘why’, putting herself in her students’ shoes and providing structure. These are three ways in which environmental scientist Ranran Wang tries to make her course as interesting and manageable as possible. With success: she has been nominated for Science Teacher of the Year 2022.

The project’s overall goal is to improve Indonesia’s environmental legal framework and its implementation by strengthening the regulatory capacity of the government, and by enhancing the capacity of CSOs and scholars to hold the government accountable for its regulatory performance.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Development of effective VR training for International Law of Armed Conflict (ILAC)

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

This project aims to explore the environmental impact of early Roman expansion (4th/3rd century BC) through a program of dating and ecological sampling of traces of field systems (centuriations).

A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

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

The state of our environment is a global concern. Despite an increasing awareness, setting internationally binding and ambitious commitments has proven to be a very difficult process. Can unilateral trade measures form an alternative and contribute to global environmental protection?

The majority (80%) of e-waste generated globally are recycled informally in developing countries.

With textnets it is possible to visualize and analyze textual data in novel ways.

This dissertation investigates Extended Lexical Units (ELUs), elements that are bigger than just one word and which are stored in the Lexicon.

CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

They were called 'annoying brats', the group of campaigning scientists who in 1978 founded what is now an internationally acclaimed ecological research institute. Their stories and those of the current staff of the Institute of Environmental Sciences are described in the book 'Forty years of Leiden…

Promotores: E. van Dijk, G.R. de Snoo. Co-promotor: H. Staats

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?