What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

What are interactive effects of human pressures on aquatic communities?

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

Een uitgebreid overzicht van software en data beschikbaar gesteld door de afdeling Environmental Biology is beschikbaar op de Engelse versie van de CML-website

Door middel van DNA-restjes in het milieu de verspreiding van bedreigde dieren in kaart brengen: het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschap Leiden (CML) stuurde studenten naar de Filipijnen om een nieuwe opsporingsmethode te testen: environmental DNA. National Geographic schreef er een artikel over.

Creating information portals for support of European environmental policy.

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

Wat zijn de belangrijkste thema's in het uitvoeren van systemen voor bio-energie ?

Overzicht van de CML-publicaties

The project falls in the context of the EU Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (COM(2005)670). The Institute for Environment and Resources (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed three sets of decoupling indicators. Such indicators require the definition of a…

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

The E3IOT database contains a high resolution, environmentally extended input output table for Europe which covers production, consumption and waste management sectors.

Are there significant differences among the environmental impacts resulting form the production of Asian aquaculture commodities and what are the main causes for these?

What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotores: M.G. Vijver, J.P.M. Vink

Celebrating 20 years of environmental research in Cagayan Valley and Sierra Madre

PhD Defence

Promotores: H.A. Udo De Haes, P.M. Brakefield

Material outflows from industrial economies.

PhD Defence

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

What are the environmental trade-offs for SMEs considering moving from monoculture aquaculture practice towards IMTA? What are the environmental trade-offs comparing IMTA species with their conventional monoculture alternatives?

Celebrating 20 years of Environmental Research and Education in Northern Cameroon

Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)

PhD Defence

The International Health Regulations are a set of binding rules which organise the global response to viral outbreaks and other similar transboundary risks to public health.

Het wemelt van de voetafdrukken die de druk van de mens op het milieu berekenen. Milieukundige Kai Fang is de eerste die een voetafdrukfamilie ontwikkelde waardoor milieuschade en uitputting van hulpbronnen beter gemeten kan worden. Promotie 24 november.

Lecture

Bacteria are highly complex and diverse organisms that have adapted to survive in ecological niches ranging from the most extreme to the most heterogeneous environments.

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

An account of the total of material flows going in, out and through Amsterdam.

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

A new environmental accounting framework using externality data and input-output tools for policy analysis.

In this thesis unconventional tools based on fluidic interfaces were developed to study the surface and interfacial chemistry of graphene, to characterize the intrinsic properties of graphene, to disentangle the effects of substrate and of the environmental factors, and to improve handling protocols…

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

A scenario building web-tool and knowledge package to enable multi-level decision making for the transition to the Circular Economy

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

Description of Biotic ligand models: making an inventory of available models & assessment of the variability of the predicted HC5 using the BLMs in different Dutch water types (2005 - 2007)

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.

Lecture, Studium Generale

PhD Defence

PhD Defence