NewsHet energieverbruik bij de productie van metalen is heel hoog: 7 tot 8 procent van het mondiale verbruik. ‘Daar schrokken we van’, zegt dr. Ester van der Voet van het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen van de Universiteit Leiden. Op 24 april brengt ze als lid van een panel van de Verenigde Naties een rapport uit in Berlijn.
A recent publication in Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation, by Tumenta et al. on human-lion conflict over livestock depredation in Waza National Park, Cameroon has demonstrated that the human-lion conflict remains an important factor in the depletion of lion populations.
Save the date June 18 2013 for the first Leiden-Delft Industrial Ecology Network Event. This event provides an excellent opportunity for all MSc Industrial Ecologists (students, alumni and teachers) to meet, mingle and get inspired!
On Tuesday 26 March 2013 Dibesh Karmacharya, Director of the Centre for Molecular Dynamics Nepal, gave a lecture at CML on the "tiger genome project".
The ‘Stans Prize 2012' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to two students: Kirstine Schiebel for her research on Yellow Nutsedge ( Cyperus esculentus ) in the Netherlands: The Effects of Changing Policies on Distribution and Abundance and Pietro Galgani for his reseach on Compost, biogas and biochar in Northern Ghana - Climate impact and economic feasibility in the context of voluntary carbon markets.
The world is at a turning point and industrial ecologists are needed now more than ever to tackle the challenge of providing a sustainable future for 9 billion people in 2050. Are you up for the job? Join our upcoming events and find out!
In dit rijk geillustreerde boek maken bioloog Merlijn van Weerd en antropoloog Jan van der Ploeg de balans op van tien jaar veldwerk op het eiland Luzon, in het noorden van de Filipijnen. De Universiteit Leiden is sinds 1999 nauw betrokken bij een onderzoeks- en beschermingsprogramma voor de Filipijnse krokodil.
Een maand lang onderzochten studenten van de minor Duurzame Ontwikkeling het afvalbeleid van de gemeente Leiden. Op 4 februari presenteerden zij hun bevindingen aan een panel van deskundigen uit de Leidse afval- en recyclingwereld. Met het pleidooi: laat de onderzoeksresultaten niet in de prullenbak verdwijnen.
PhD-graduation of Ralph Buij on "Raptors in changing West African savannas" on Thurday 24 January 2013 16.15h.
On 7 december an MOU was signed in Leiden by the rector of the Mulawarman university: Prof. Sjamsudin and the Dean of the Faculty of Science: prof Geert de Snoo. The MOU builts on previous collaboration on natural resources management and sustainable forestry.
PhD-graduation of Pricelia Nyaekon Tumenta on "A Lion Population under Threat; Understanding lion ( Panthera leo Linnaeus, 1758) ecology and human-lion interactions related to livestock predation in Waza National Park, Cameroon" on Tuesday 11 december 2012 12.30h.
The surface area of savannah in West and Central Africa is rapidly shrinking, with disastrous consequences for the lion populations living there. Without protective measures, within ten years, there will be no more lions in this part of Africa. Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation , 4 December 2012.
Upcoming events in November 2012 for the Master's programme Industrial Ecology
The Environmental Sciences Research Prize 2012 has been awarded to CML researcher David Font Vivanco by the Environmental Scientists Association of Catalonia.
On Thursday 29 September Hans de Iongh was interviewed by Menno Bentvelt on Radio 1 ( programme De Gids) on the breeding programme of Northern white rhino’s in Kenya.
PhD-graduation of Haman Unusa on "the New pastoralism, Absentee owners, new technologies, economic change and natural resource management in the Sahelian region of Far North Cameroon" on Thursday 20 September 2012, 15.00 h.
On Thurday 20 September five students will receive their diploma from Prof.dr.ir. H.E. van de Akker, chairman of the examination Committee of the Master Industrial Ecology.
The master’s programme Industrial Ecology (IE) started in 2004 with 12 students and has increased until 90 students from 20 different countries this year.
As of 1 September 2012, prof.dr. Eddy van der Meijden is appointed as interim director at CML. The appointment of prof.dr. Eddy van der Meijden follows from the appointment of prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo as Dean of the Faculty of Science.
Since 1 September 2012, René Kleijn is Director of Education of the MSc program Industrial Ecology. He is the successor of Gijsbert Koorevaar.
