Promotor: W.T. de Groot

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…

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

Galaxies form and evolve through close interaction with their surroundings. As a result, the heavy elements ('metals') that are synthesized in stars, are found both inside and outside galaxies.

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

Op 10 oktober 2019 verdedigde Laure d'Hondt haar proefschrift 'Addressing Industrial Pollution in Indonesia. The Nexus between Regulation and Redress seeking'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. A.W. Bedner.

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

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.

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

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

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.

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

This thesis combines field and laboratory studies to address some of the most pressing questions in the field of microplastic research.

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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.

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?

Freshwater and brackish water ecosystems are arguably the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth, due to concentrated human developments in and around them. The Pontocaspian (PC) region located at the border of Europe and Asia contains a variety of brackish water ecosystems and unique inhabitants, known…

Freshwater is an important resource, but at a great risk of species decline due to habitat loss, pollution and over-exploitation, and invasive alien species.

How are links between macro-invertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning influenced by anthropogenic pressures?

Onderzoekers gebruiken smartphones en andere consumentencamera’s steeds vaker voor wetenschappelijke toepassingen, zoals citizen science. Toch is het nog steeds moeilijk om gegevens van verschillende apparaten te vergelijken en combineren. Promovendus Olivier Burggraaff ontwikkelde een nieuwe, gebruiksvriendelijke…

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

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…

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

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?

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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