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…

Naar schatting bestaat de wereldbevolking over twintig jaar uit ongeveer 8,7 miljard mensen, terwijl dat aantal nu 7,3 miljard is. Deze groei, gecombineerd met de bijbehorende groei in consumptie en de verbeteringen in levensstandaarden, zal resulteren in een enorme groei in de vraag naar voedsel, verbruiksgoederen,…

Courses in English.

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

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

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

Hetterscheid

Courses in English.

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'.

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

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

Has the industrial sector in China effectively been decarbonizing in recent years, across different regions and subsectors, and is it plausible that it will reduce its CO2 emissions in conformity with national and internationally pledged emission goals?

How to contribute to a quantum leap of eco-industrial symbiosis in China?

Masterdag vrijdag 4 november 2016

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

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

The key characteristic of active matter is the motion of an emergent collection (such as a flock of birds), which is driven by the consumption of energy by its active components (i.e. individual birds).

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

This volume is pubished in the IMISCOE-AUP Series and edited by Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney.

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

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

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?

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…

With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.

Decentralized plug and play systems for energy production are the future picture of our society. Artificial photosynthetic systems are used for this purpose.

Summer School

De masterspecialisatie Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy van de Universiteit Leiden was voorheen bekend onder de naam Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

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…

What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?

In deze opleiding ligt de focus op het informeren van het algemene publiek over belangrijke wetenschappelijke onderwerpen en hoe je deze communicatie wetenschappelijk onderbouwt.

In deze opleiding ligt de focus op het informeren van het algemene publiek over belangrijke wetenschappelijke onderwerpen en hoe je deze communicatie wetenschappelijk onderbouwt.

Deze opleiding bereidt je voor op een rol als verbindende schakel tussen wetenschap en de samenleving. Je verwerft de kennis en vaardigheden waarmee je andere wetenschappers en leken kunt informeren over belangrijke wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen in jouw vakgebied.

Deze opleiding bereidt je voor op een rol als verbindende schakel tussen wetenschap en de samenleving. Je verwerft de kennis en vaardigheden waarmee je andere wetenschappers en leken kunt informeren over belangrijke wetenschappelijke ontwikkelingen in jouw vakgebied.

In deze opleiding ligt de focus op het informeren van het algemene publiek over belangrijke wetenschappelijke onderwerpen en hoe je deze communicatie wetenschappelijk onderbouwt.

Promotor: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promotor: Todor P. Stefanov

De onderzoekgroep Terrorism and Political Violence onderzoekt de verschillende verschijningvormen van terrorisme-gerelateerd en andere vormen van politiek gemotiveerd geweld.

The STW project Energy Efficient Computer-Brain Interaction (principal investigator for LIACS: dr. T.P. Stefanov) has been granted. Funding for LIACS: 1 PhD student + travel/equipment budget, project duration: 4 years.

The research in this thesis is focused on tomographic reconstruction based on two imaging modalities in electron microscopy.