686 search results for “sustainable development” in the Staff website
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Zhenyang Chen
Science
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Sarah Hinman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Tim van de Meerendonk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Simon van Lierde
Science
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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Peter van Bodegom on sustainable horticulture
Dutch greenhouse horticulture is a world leader when it comes to innovative capacity and sustainability, but ‘the challenges are great in terms of energy, water, environment and biodiversity,’ says Peter van Bodegom, coordinator of AgriFood at the Centre for Sustainability of the Leiden, Delft, Erasmus…
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How can local policies contribute to global sustainability goals?
The challenges of building a sustainable society are unprecedented. But the Dutch municipalities cannot be faulted for their commitment. They are working hard, conclude Professor Eefje Cuppen and Lian Merkx, programme manager for energy at the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG). To exchange…
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Are tropical forests threatened by democracy?
Democracy may lead to more deforestation in the tropics. So write environmental scientist Joeri Morpurgo and his colleagues in the prominent scientific journal Biological conservation. They found that competitive elections are associated with more loss of tropical rainforest than elections without competition.…
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A better world begins with bringing together economic law, environmental law and human rights
Economic law, environmental law and human rights are important fields of law for sustainable development. But they do not interact sufficiently, which makes it difficult to implement sustainable development.
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Students seek sustainable solutions for businesses
Master’s students in Industrial Ecology and Governance of Sustainability have helped answer organisations’ questions about sustainability
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New minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food ‘A full spectrum analysis of global society’
In September 2023 the new minor Sustainability, Climate Change and Food starts. This minor critically examines the complexities of food sustainability through ecological, socio-economic, political, and cultural systems.
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‘The battle for sustainability won’t be won in the civil courts’
Fossil Free against KLM on greenwashing, municipalities against Chemours on PFAS discharge, climate cases against Shell and ING Bank… There are many examples of recent civil lawsuits on sustainability. But does climate litigation in the civil courts actually have an effect?
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Hunt for cheap metals that help store sustainable energy
Storing energy is one of the biggest challenges in the energy transition. Hydrogen could be a solution. Chemist Daan den Boer is researching how to make the chemical reaction needed to store energy in hydrogen as cheap and efficient as possible.
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Kiki Zanolie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Arnout Koornneef
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Teacher development
Leiden University considers good education to be of paramount importance. That is why we invest in our teachers’ professional development, to ensure that their teaching methods continue to match the needs of individual students.
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Further development
Within the Leiden Research Support programme, various activities have been started and are now being further developed.
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NWO grant gives way to more sustainable production of antibiotics
The opportunity to explore a new, exciting research topic. That is how Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski describes his successful application for the NWO XS grant. It comprises 50,000 euros, which the researcher from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) will spend on investigating a more sustainable…
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New Leiden Law School’s ‘Sustainability’ website
Organisation
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IIASL present at launch of sustainability initiative Net Zero Space
On Friday 12 November 2021, the Net Zero Space initiative was launched at the Paris Peace Forum. The International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL) of Leiden University is one of the first supporters to the initiative.
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Sustainable City Lab will ‘set to work on sustainability in our own backyard’
The Sustainable City Lab The Hague will be a hub that connects organisations in The Hague that work on sustainability with the research and teaching at Leiden University. ‘We’re going to set to work on complex sustainability challenges in our own backyard,’ says project leader Eefje Cuppen.
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Ana Arias Calvo
Science
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Students: ‘We want to be the most sustainable university in the world’
The students from the Leiden University Green Office have big ambitions and have outlined their recommendations in a new Green Paper. Like being the most sustainable university in the world by 2030. Students Janey Franssen and Job Kemperman are two of the paper’s authors. How do they want to achieve…
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Agnieszka Kazimierczuk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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How fungi are helping us be more sustainable
Professor of Fungal Genetics and Biotechnology Arthur Ram explains how fungi can help us be more sustainable.
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Andrea Spruijt
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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David Zetland
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Zijian Li
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Inge van der Weijden
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña
Faculty of Humanities
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Marieke Bos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kiki Spaninks
Science
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Evelien Urbanus
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Christine Mummery
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Tommy van Avermaete
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Sheila van Berkel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Barbara Gravendeel
Science
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Jimena Pacheco Miranda
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Shannon Yuen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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George Miley
Science
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Marja Oudega
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Liza van den Bosch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ili Ma
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nienke Wieringa
ICLON
- Teacher development (oa BKO)
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Dietsje Jolles
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hanna Swaab
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marga Sikkema-de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen