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Sustainable fishing in one of Malawi’s biggest wetlands 13 June 2017
The Elephant Marsh is one of the biggest wetlands in Malawi and many of the country’s inhabitants rely on it for their small-scale fishing catch. To ...
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Giovanni Gruni to take part to meeting of International Law Association committee on sustainable development 13 October 2016
Giovanni Gruni, Assistant Professor European Law, will take part to the International Law Association committee on international trade law, sustainabl...
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New Horizon 2020 project on Concrete Sustainability 06 July 2016
A new Horizon 2020 project has been awarded to Mingming Hu and Jeroen Guinée of the Department of Industrial Ecology of Institute of Environmental Sci...
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Why fundamental science matters 21 March 2016
Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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What to do with the fruit residue from oil palm seeds: refine it into bio-ethanol or use it as fertilizer? 27 October 2015
When oil is harvested from the seeds of the oil palm tree, the fruit residue can be used to make bio-ethanol. However, it can also be used as a fertil...
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A sustainable approach for the world's fish supply 12 January 2015
China’s booming aquaculture industry is increasingly dependent on fishmeal made from wild-caught fish, a practice that depletes wild fish stocks. A ne...
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Students make CO2 calculator 10 September 2009
Two students from the Leiden-Delft MSc Industrial Ecology programme have made a carbon footprint calculator for the website www.doemaarduurzaam.nl; th...