In 2019 startte LUGO een petitie met het verzoek om een ambitieuze duurzaamheidsvisie voor 2030. Deze petitie is geformuleerd op basis van wat LUGO haalbaar achtte in plaats van op de beperkingen van nu. Wij vinden dat duurzaamheid een van de kernwaarden moet zijn van het volgende centrale beleidsplan…

The use of increasingly large and diverse datasets to guide urban climate action has implications for how, and by whom, local governments are held accountable.

Development of scenarios for 2050 detailed in an IO framework

By placing food at the centre of investigation, this Minor explores current-day debates on political, environmental, economic and cultural change at both the local and global levels.

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

Rechtsgeleerdheid, Instituut voor Fiscale en Economische vakken, Economie

Rechtsgeleerdheid, Instituut voor Fiscale en Economische vakken, Economie

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh

Using the principles of Industrial Ecology in Environmental Policy making in two cases: transition to a hydrogen economy and chlorinated compounds.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Arjen Doelman (Universiteit Leiden), Max Rietkerk (Universiteit Utrecht), Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) en Isla Myers-Smith (University of Edinburgh) ontvangen voor hun RESILIENCE-project een ERC Synergy-subsidie van 10 miljoen euro. De wetenschappers gaan onderzoeken of en hoe we…

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.

Het Tyndall Centre for Climate Change research (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) organiseerde van 6 tot april een conferentie over uitdaging rond klimaatverandering.

Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml

In September 2023 the new minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food starts. This minor critically examines the complexities of food sustainability through ecological, socio-economic, political, and cultural systems.

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml

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Nieuw onderzoeksrapport en beleidsbrief van Carolien Jacobs en Bernardo Almeida

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

What is the population size and social structure in time and space? What is the lion diet and food preference in time and space? What is the home range (MCP and Kernel) and movement in time and space? What are human – lion conflict and responses of lions to traditional herding in time and space? What…

This thesis covers several aspects of quantum algorithms for near-term quantum computers and its applications to quantum chemistry and material science.

Klimaatbeleid is een heet hangijzer geworden in het publieke debat. In NRC pleit universitair hoofddocent Jeroen Touwen voor een genuanceerde blik op het debat.

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Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.

Promotor: M.K. Richardson, Co-Promotor: F. Witte

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

Op dinsdag 10 januari 2022 zijn tijdens de facultaire nieuwjaarsreceptie de jaarlijkse Meijersprijzen en de scriptieprijzen uitgereikt.

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Binnen Una Europa vindt academische samenwerking plaats in interdisciplinaire zelfsturende comités (SSC’s).

One of the effects of climate change is the phenomenon of desertification, a process that occurs in semi-arid and arid areas and causes land degradation as well as vegetation loss. Due to the lack of resources, vegetation self-organizes to sustain itself by forming large-scale spatial patterns.

This dissertation investigates the energy and material related impacts of the transition towards a low-carbon heating system in the Netherlands, in the context of its 2050 climate and circular economy policy goals.

How the global distribution of vegetation stands dominated by arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal plants relate to principle aspects of belowground carbon accumulation processes?