611 search results for “environmental and resource economie” in the Student website
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Top 10 per cent of consumers cause trillions in environmental damage
Those who consume the most also cause the most damage. The 10 per cent of the world’s population who consume the most cause up to $5.7 trillion in environmental damage annually, according to new research from Leiden University.
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Glenn Aguilar Hernandez -
Asmaa KhadimFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ester van der Voet appointed professor of Sustainable Resource Use
The energy transition is already a huge challenge for society, but sustainable use of resources is even more complicated. Yet it is at least as urgent. Ester van der Voet has been working on it for decades, for example within the United Nations. Since February, she is a professor at the Centre for Environmental…
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René Kleijn joins UN panel on resource use
How can we manage our natural resources more sustainably? That’s the key question behind the United Nations’ International Resource Panel (IRP). The panel recently welcomed a new member: René Kleijn, Professor of Industrial Ecology at Leiden University. We asked him three questions about his new rol…
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer
Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countries. This was shown by long-term economic and environmental data. 'The gap between poor and rich countries is widening.' Scientists from the Leiden Institute…
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Rosanne van der VoetFaculty of Humanities
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Jan BoersemaFaculty of Science
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A circular economy is about much more than just recycling
It’s Circular Economy Week, from 1 to 6 February. But what is it that makes an economy circular? And just how circular is our university? René Kleijn, lecturer on the honours class Circular Economy: from challenge to opportunity, explains.
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Gerard Persoon
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Daniëlla Dam-de JongFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jeroen Oosterbaan -
Robert Istrate -
Virgil Urbina Lazardi
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
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Christina Luise ToenshoffFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jaroslaw KantorowiczFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Jonathan LondonFaculty of Humanities
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Jue WangFaculty of Humanities
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‘Ask scientists how to build the circular economy’
Some governments and companies are pursuing a more circular economy, but what is the best way to get there? An international group of industrial ecology researchers wrote a report that stresses the importance of including the scientific side into policies and practices. ‘We feel an obligation to support…
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Martin SievertFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Anna NotsuFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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New eDNA method opens doors for environmental research
With a single sample of water or soil, researches can analyse the DNA of everything that is living in that environment. During her research, PhD candidate Beilun Zhao discovered a way to analyse not only the kind of species, but also the age of the species in a water sample. The method showed its first…
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Arman HasanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Alexandre AfonsoFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Max Joosten
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Kathleen Brown
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Tim van de MeerendonkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Hai Lin -
Gus GreensteinFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs