26 search results for “hydrology” in the Public website
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Valerio Barbarossa
Science
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Paul Hudson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jinhui Zhou
Science
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Water Management in Ancient Mexico: Archaeological Heritage and Sustainable Development
This project investigates ancient water management of streams, springs and runoffs on the archaeological site of Monte Albán, Mexico, as a means to contribute with different stakeholders in the development of sustainable solutions to water problems today such as floods and scarcity.
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An Antique Green Desert in the Udhruh Region (Southern Jordan)
In ancient times, the steppe in the hinterland of Petra (Jordan) was transformed into a green oasis. This project tries to shed insights in the agricultural, water management and societal processes resulting in this transformation. This will be accomplished by practicing an interdisciplinary research…
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Quantification of ecosystem services within river catchments
How can ecosystem services within river catchments be quantified in spatial and temporal explicit way?
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Udhruh Archaeological Project
The hinterland of important centres like Petra (Southern Jordan) can provide essential information that contribute to the understanding of their rise, expansion and decline.
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Getting students away from screens... and into the landscape
Leiden University's International Honours College, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) experienced empty halls and empty classrooms this past year on the residential campus on the Anna van Buerenplein in The Hague due to the global pandemic. Dr Paul Hudson designed a Covid-proof course that enabled…
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Water and Society Lab
How do societies move forward with sustainable, effective and efficient management of Earth's water resources?
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Water and River Management in The Netherlands
The Water Resources and River Management course (300-level) took a day long field trip to exotic… South Holland! Here students were able to examine a variety of ways in which densely populated deltas confront issues related to water management and flooding, from a Dutch perspective.
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LUC The Hague - Summer Field School 2018
To observe nature at work, LUC students taking the Earth, Energy, and Sustainability major spend two weeks of their summer break in the Tauern Alps of Austria. In brief, seventeen students, two student teaching assistants, and one instructor went off-campus to explore Alpine landscapes at altitudes…
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Probing complex problems
Issues such as climate change, the depletion of natural resources or social inequality are too complex to be addressed from a single scientific discipline or by a single country. Leiden University has the expertise to bring the resolution of these enormous problems a small step closer.
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Study confirms: burning coal in Bulgaria causes water stress
The coal-power energy sector is using enormous amounts of fresh water which is projected to negatively affect lives and the ecological balance of the surrounding region. This is the conclusion of the new report The Unquenchable Thirst of Energy Production, published by Greenpeace Bulgaria and Leiden…
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New book on the Sand Motor offers research findings and reflection
How can the Dutch Sand Motor strengthen our coasts in a natural way? And how can this knowledge and experience help prevent coastal erosion in Jamaica? Researchers Alexander van Oudenhoven (Institute of Environmental Sciences Leiden) and Arjen Luijendijk (Delft University of Technology) have compiled…
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Pressure on River Management Leads to more Frequent Flooding
In his new book 'Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands', Paul Hudson Associate Professor of Physical Geography at Leiden University College in The Hague, examines human impacts on lowlands rivers. The past twenty years the pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously because…
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This Week’s Discoveries | 17 January 2017
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Landscapes of Survival
Pastoralist Societies, Rock Art and Literacy in Jordan’s Black Desert (200 BC to 800 AD)
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Facts about water: local knowledge, scientific models and societal conflict regarding dams and fracking
Lecture, First Water Talk of the Water and Society Lab
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FGGA Research Seminar: Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructure of Millennial Mumbai
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This Week's Discoveries | 28 February 2017
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Dissertations
Overview of all dissertations published by PhD candidates from CML.
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Publications
Recent publications
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Masterclasses by Hugh Kennedy
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
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Publications
Recent publications
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U.N. World Water Day: Key Challenges and Opportunities to Sustainable Water Management
Conference, Symposium of the Water and Society Lab: U.N. World Water Day
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Older publications
Overview of the publications of the department of Environmental Biology (1972-2015)