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?

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

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…

Indonesia is experiencing various environmental challenges related to its fast economic growth. Therefore, it is necessary to have measurable and applicable indicators to obtain accurate data and information regarding the costs of adverse environmental impacts arising from economic activities to support…

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.

... 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. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

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

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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

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

Geesteswetenschappen

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

The research of the Applied Mathematics cluster is concerned with such diverse topics as dynamical systems, representation theory, differential equations and pattern recognition.

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

Als een van de eerste milieuwetenschappers ooit ontving Arnold Tukker zaterdag 12 november het eredoctoraat aan de Universiteit van Linköping. Deze Zweedse universiteit bekroont Tukker voor zijn wetenschappelijk werk om tot een circulaire economie te komen.

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?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Mathematisch Instituut (MI)

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.

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.

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Deprettere

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

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

Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability' laat zien hoe de eco-geologische creativiteit van de aarde verweven is met de landvormen, culturen en wereldvisies van moderne Himalayagemeenschappen. Het boek laat casestudies zien uit Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim,…

Science is typically a patchwork of research contributions without much coordination. Especially in clinical trials, the follow-up studies that we do fail to be the most promising.