Het erkennen van het werk en de inzet van de medewerkers van de Universiteit Leiden is een stap dichter bij een duurzamere universiteit.

De specialisatie Economics & Governance van de master Public Administration leert je om oplossingsgerichte benaderingen te formuleren voor concrete beleidskwesties die zich bevinden op het snijvlak tussen economie en openbaar bestuur. Deze specialisatie is een uniek gecombineerd aanbod van de afdeling…

Law, Institute of Tax Law and Economics

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

Indicators to measure progress in de-linking economic growth and environmental pressure.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Hooykaas, Co-promotor: R. Offringa

Courses in English.

This thesis presents the results of a study on the interfaces of insulating oxides with and without the insertion of a magnetic layer.

Op 1 oktober 2019 verdedigde Emile Cammeraat zijn proefschrift 'Economic Effects of Social Protection'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. K.P. Goudswaard en prof.dr. P.W.C. Koning.

Science, Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)

Plants are colonized by an astounding number of microorganisms that can provide different life-support functions, including nutrient acquisition and protection against (a)biotic stresses like drought or pathogen attack.

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken

Courses in English.

Law, Institute of Tax Law and Economics, Governance and Global Affairs

Netherlands Statistics (CBS), Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam have started a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Enriching official economic statistics using data-driven modelling techniques'.

Plants and soils from natural ecosystems harbor great diversity of soil microorganisms, which could potentially contribute to the sustainability of horticulture. The knowledge about using wild plant species and soil from natural ecosystem to improve the crop health will advance the application of ecological…

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Actinobacteria are Gram-positive bacteria that have a complex multicellular life cycle and are well known for their ability to produce a wide range of bioactive natural products (NPs).

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?

Bij Cambridge University Press (CUP) verscheen onlangs van Ingrid Leijten het boek Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Het boek maakt onderdeel uit van de serie Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy en heeft als onderwerp de bescherming van sociaaleconomische rechten…

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

Creating information portals for support of European environmental policy.

Lecture

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) in Leiden is een uniek interdisciplinair master programma, waarbij onderwerpen als vrijheid, rechtvaardigheid en burgerschap in de 21e eeuw centraal staan. Bekijk de video om meer over dit programma te leren.

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

Sinds april 2019 heeft de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen er een nieuwe locatie bij voor haar onderzoek. Het Levelgebouw (direct naast Leiden Centraal) ontvangt proefpersonen in 3 gloednieuwe laboratoria. Psycholoog Carsten de Dreu vertelt enthousiast over de nieuwe mogelijkheden voor zijn onder…

Iris Houben en Hetty ten Oever hebben een bijdrage geschreven voor het boek Socio-Economic Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision. In hun bijdrage onderzoeken zij de relatie tussen de verplichtingen inzake publieke dienstverlening in de EU wetgeving (PSO’s) en de mensenrechten.

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?

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.

Plants, are sessile organisms, have developed strategies to adapt to changes in their environment, in part by altering their growth and development.

The filamentous bacteria Streptomyces are widespread inhabitants of terrestrial soils.

In this Ph.D. thesis, we characterized two novel upstream regulators of JUB1, HB40, and HB22, in Arabidopsis thaliana. In Chapter 2, we described functions of HB40 in modulating growth and development via the regulation of JUB1 and GA inactivation genes GA2OXs.

Lecture, Inspiratiesessie

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

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

PhD Defence

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

Effects of maternal smoking, premature birth, intra-uterine growth retardation and asphyxia on child development.

Tegenwoordig kunnen ze de val van ministers veroorzaken, maar ooit waren bonnetjes een nieuw fenomeen. Universitair hoofddocent Robert Stein ontvangt een beurs van het NIAS om hun ontstaan in kaart te brengen.