The role of material production as a driver of environmental impacts is increasing, which calls for a better understanding of global material flows. This thesis explores the role of in-use stocks of products, buildings and infrastructure as a key driver of global material demand and discusses the implications…

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.

Where and how are critical materials currently used and how can this information be used to develop scenarios about their future demand.

The thesis describes experimental steps towards reduction of friction on the macroscopic scale by scenarios of thermo- and superlubricity well-known on the nanoscale.

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

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

Development of scenarios for 2050 detailed in an IO framework

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As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

Comparing the global warming potential (GWP) of the service provided by an iRex Digital Reader to the same service provided by an office printer using a scanning LCA.

The intracluster medium (ICM) is a hot, tenuous and X-ray emitting gas that pervades galaxy clusters.

We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

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

Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.H. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H.Hoekstra

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

In this work, we attempt to answer the question:

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This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

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…

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

The ultimate goal of cosmologists is to find a cosmological model able to explain the current observational data.

This thesis aimed to investigate the impact of exposure dynamics, relative contributions of ENPs(particle) and ENPs(ion), and dosing regimens on the toxicity of ENPs varying in different physico-chemical properties, on the composition and functioning of soil microbial communities.

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

SEAtrans: an interdisciplinary research project that aims at studying the dynamics and processes of transitions in society-nature interactions in Southeast Asian societies.

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

Op 10 april verscheen op Verfassungsblog een blog van Armin Cuyvers getiteld: Five Scenarios for Europe – Understanding the EU Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe.

World history is often framed in terms of flows of people and migration: humans coming ‘out of Africa’, the spread of farmers in the Holocene, Phoenician and Greek diasporas over the ancient Mediterranean, the colonization of the world by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Together with his Exeter…

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Ondanks de snelle vooruitgang in zonne- en windenergie blijft een volledig schone energievoorziening een enorme uitdaging. Sectoren als de zware industrie en de transportsector kunnen nog niet zonder koolstofhoudende brandstoffen. Willen we toch de klimaatdoelen behalen, dan moet ook in deze sectoren…

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Planten, algen en bacteriën zetten zonlicht om in chemische energie. In een workshop van het Lorentz Center inventariseren onderzoekers de mogelijkheden om dit proces van fotosynthese te benutten en imiteren, met het oog op een duurzame brandstofvoorziening. De vrijdagmiddagsessie is openbaar.

Materialen die zijn opgebouwd uit losse korrels vertonen een bijzonder verschijnsel dat ‘jamming’ heet. Met onderzoek naar de aard ervan haalt een team van wetenschappers onder leiding van de Leidse natuurkundige prof. dr. Martin van Hecke de cover van het toonaangevende tijdschrift Physical Review…

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Congres/symposium, Symposium of the Water and Society Lab: U.N. World Water Day