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.

Analytical tools for environmental design and management in a systems perspective. The combined use of analytical tools.

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

Principles of Environmental Sciences provides a comprehensive picture of the principles, concepts and methods that are applicable to problems originating from the interaction between the living and non-living environment and mankind. Both the analysis of such problems and the way solutions to environmental…

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

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?

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

De afdeling richt zich op het verbeteren van het wetenschappelijk begrip in de relatie tussen mens en natuur. Hoe beïnvloedt menselijk handelen (via bijvoorbeeld klimaatverandering, landgebruiksverandering en de emissie van mogelijk toxische verbindingen) de natuur in het algemeen en de biodiversiteit…

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

De afdeling Environmental Biology (CML-EB) houdt zich bezig met vraagstukken rondom biodiversiteit en natuurlijke hulpbronnen op het platteland in westerse en niet-westerse gebieden.

... which focuses on the development and use of new multivariate statistical tools needed for analyses of data collected in the four other programs.

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

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Het onderzoek van dit programma is gecentreerd rond dynamische systemen, functionele analyse en hun interactie.

Promotores: E. van Dijk, G.R. de Snoo. Co-promotor: H. Staats

The majority (80%) of e-waste generated globally are recycled informally in developing countries.

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

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

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

De masteropleiding Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory van de Universiteit Leiden richt zich op de studie van literatuur vanuit een vergelijkend en theoretisch perspectief, en onderzoekt de literatuur van een breed spectrum van talen en culturen uit de hele wereld.

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

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Op 19 juni 2018 verdedigde Matthew Gillett zijn proefschrift ‘Prosecuting environmental harm before the international criminal court’. De promotoren is prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Deprettere

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

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 verdedigde Linlin Sun haar proefschrift ‘International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining’. Het onderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof. dr. E.C.P.D.C. De Brabandere.

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

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.

Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water