Hoe moet de EU omgaan met Oekraïne, Wit-Rusland en Moldavië? Hoe kunnen we de Europese Unie helpen om, in een uiterst moeilijke en veeleisende geopolitieke context, zijn politiek ten aanzien van deze landen te heroverwegen?

Sociale Wetenschappen, Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie

In 2015, CML published over 70 papers, contributed to the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, won awards and advised the Dutch government on the safe use of pesticides. CML awarded 11 PhDs and taught students from all over the world how to contribute to sustainability. We wish you…

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotor: Dr. Young Hae Choi

Streptomyces present a valuable platform for natural product discovery. Lugdunomycin is a novel angucycline-derived polyketide from Streptomyces sp QL37, with unprecedented skeleton and antimicrobial activity.

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?

What are trait-trait relationships in wetlands? To what extent the so-called leaf economics traits deviate from terrestrial ecosystems? How traits specific to wetland plant relate to plant strategies? What’s the relationship between wetland plant traits to the ecosystem functioning (e.g. productivity,…

Op 5 september 2019 verdedigde Jennifer Doekhie haar proefschrift 'Dimensions of desistance: A qualitative longitudinal analysis of different dimensions of the desistance process among long-term prisoners in the Netherlands'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P. Nieuwbeerta.

Survival Analysis for Junior Researchers 2018 werd georganiseerd in Leiden.

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

Hoewel veel Nederlanders inmiddels netjes hun plasticafval scheiden, belandt nog steeds een beduidend deel uiteindelijk in de oceaan, aldus ecoloog Arnold Tukker. In een interview met de New Scientist vertelt hij waar het mis gaat.

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

BioSolar Cells is a five-year research project in which ten knowledge institutions and 45 private industries work together.

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.

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

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

De Environmental Sciences Research Prize 2012 is uitgereikt aan CML onderzoeker David Font Vivanco door de Environmental Scientists Association van Catalonië.

Hoe kunnen we onze maatschappij zo inrichten dat de wereld leefbaar blijft voor onszelf en al het andere leven om ons heen? Aan dat vraagstuk werken Leidse wetenschappers samen vanuit allerlei disciplines, van biologie tot datawetenschap en van milieueconomie tot archeologie.

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

This dissertation focuses on developing new mathematical and statistical methods to properly represent time-varying covariates and model them within the context of time-to-event analysis.

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

In 2050 moet de overstap naar nieuwe, duurzame energiebronnen zijn voltooid. Wetenschappers van de Universiteit Leiden verrichten vanuit diverse disciplines uniek onderzoek dat bijdraagt aan deze transitie en de reductie van CO2.

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Description of Biotic ligand models: making an inventory of available models & assessment of the variability of the predicted HC5 using the BLMs in different Dutch water types (2005 - 2007)

Accumulation of metals in economy and environment and its associated risks, within the Netherlands and the EU.

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

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…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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