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Become the future change agent with the new master Governance of Sustainability22 October 2018For students who want to be an intermediary between scientific experts, policy makers and politicians in the domain of sustainability, the master prog...
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From ideals to actions at the international One Young World summit09 October 2018Thinking up solutions for global issues such as environmental pollution and poverty. This is what young people from all over the world will be doing a...
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New BA Urban Studies: How to keep cities liveable04 September 2018By 2050, 70 per cent of the world's population will live in cities. This has major consequences for the lives of city-dwellers and for the environment...
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Unstoppable urbanisation of Indonesia calls for interdisciplinary partnerships05 July 2018More than half of the Indonesian population lives in cities. What does this mean for public health? How sustainable are these megacities? This is the ...
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Thinking outside your scientific box19 June 2018How do you study complex disasters like a nuclear explosion or a natural disaster? Who can help unravel the legal knot that Brexit has become? The imp...
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Innovative knowledge projects start in The Hague14 June 2018The Municipality of The Hague called on researchers to come up with a proposal for an innovative research project on problems big cities face such as ...
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Using fungi to produce renewable energy05 June 2018Ebru Alazi ‘hacked’ an enzyme-producing system in the fungus Aspergillus niger in order to produce renewable energy more easily. She manipulated the f...
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What plant genes can teach us15 March 2018Just like us, plants also produce growth hormones, and they also go through an ageing process. The study of the genes and mechanisms behind these proc...
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What we can learn from hi-tech nature08 March 2018Biodiversity in the Netherlands is having a tough time. Professor of Natural Capital Koos Biesmeijer combines research with practical advice: from th...
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Sustainable fishing in one of Malawi’s biggest wetlands13 June 2017The Elephant Marsh is one of the biggest wetlands in Malawi and many of the country’s inhabitants rely on it for their small-scale fishing catch. To ...
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Giovanni Gruni to take part to meeting of International Law Association committee on sustainable development13 October 2016Giovanni Gruni, Assistant Professor European Law, will take part to the International Law Association committee on international trade law, sustainabl...
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New Horizon 2020 project on Concrete Sustainability06 July 2016A new Horizon 2020 project has been awarded to Mingming Hu and Jeroen Guinée of the Department of Industrial Ecology of Institute of Environmental Sci...
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Why fundamental science matters21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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What to do with the fruit residue from oil palm seeds: refine it into bio-ethanol or use it as fertilizer?27 October 2015When oil is harvested from the seeds of the oil palm tree, the fruit residue can be used to make bio-ethanol. However, it can also be used as a fertil...
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A sustainable approach for the world's fish supply12 January 2015China’s booming aquaculture industry is increasingly dependent on fishmeal made from wild-caught fish, a practice that depletes wild fish stocks. A ne...