Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

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…

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?

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

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…

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

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

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?

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

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

Kevin speelt hedendaags repertoire dat zich onderscheidt doordat de lichamelijk handelingen die nodig zijn om deze muziek uit te voeren in de notatie van elkaar losgekoppeld zijn. Dit heet ook wel physical polyphonic notations, een unieke en relatief recente trend in de muziek waarbij naast de noten…

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

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.

What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?

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

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.

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

What is the environmental impact of different waste collection systems across Europe? How can the collection be improved when considering collection, sorting, and treatment, as well as use options for secondary materials?

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

Promotie

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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

Kunnen landen bij gebrek aan een sterk internationaal kader voor milieubescherming unilateraal optreden om het wereldwijde milieu te beschermen?

A New Technology-Based Firm (NTBF) is a significant enabler of job creation and a driver of the economy through stimulating innovation.

Stimuleren van Prestaties en Motivatie in de Eerste Jaren van het Voortgezet Onderwijs

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

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…

The major and ultimate aim of metabolomics is to obtain an answer to a specific biological or clinical question.

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

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-Promotor: R. T. Dame

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?

Fungal food spoilage often starts with a contamination with spores. Experimental data strongly indicate the existence of subpopulations of spores with different levels of resistance to preservation methods.

Promovenda Lilo Nein onderzoekt de relaties tussen tekst en performance vanuit het perspectief van de beeldende kunst.

Op 7 mei 2020 verdedigde Jolanda van der Vliet proefschrift 'The International Legal Protection of Environmental Refugees. A human rights-based, security and State responsibility approach'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof.dr.ir. J.J.C. Voorhoeve.

How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

In welke mate zijn beoordelingen op basis van een videodossier betrouwbaar, generaliseerbaar en valide?

Sociale Wetenschappen, Culturele Antropologie en Ontwikkelingssociologie

A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments

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?

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