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- - How much energy can we obtain from biomass under present agricultural practices without affecting global food security? 2008-02-29 14:30:05
- - What are the possible environmental trade-offs and co-benefits of achieving the CO2 emission reduction targets in the Netherlands in 2020 and 2050? 2008-02-29 11:15:57
- - What is the optimal measurement strategy to improve our understanding of the scales as well as feedback mechanisms involved in land-atmosphere and boundary layer process interactions? 2008-02-29 09:41:03
- - What is the role of land-atmosphere and boundary layer feedback mechanisms in determining the resilience of ecosystems to imposed perturbations and forcings? 2008-02-29 09:40:07
- - With all the LCA tools, research groups and individual bias will there ever be one standard methology to create a true internationally accepted standard? 2008-02-29 09:15:52
- - Are 2nd Generation Biofuels any better (ecologically and ecomonically) than 1st Generation Biofuels? And isn't the 1st needed before the 2nd can commence? 2008-02-29 09:10:33
- - How is it possible to replace or partially substitute energy and petrochemcial production in Europe by biomass without having enough land scape within its borders and seeing the increased competition between other nations? 2008-02-29 09:08:54
- - Is it possible to continue the economic and material consumption growth with finite supply of fossil fuels? 2008-02-29 09:06:23
- - How can rapidly developing countries like China and India develop in a sustainable way and still meet their energy needs? 2008-02-28 16:09:30
- - How can transitions from fossil-fuel-based economies to low-carbon economies take place in industrialised and developing countries and what will be the consequences? 2008-02-28 16:01:15
- - "How can flood control be assisted by appropriate habitat management and restoration, and what are the impacts on biodiversity?" 2008-02-28 14:40:33
- - "What methods most accurately measure ‘ecological status’ in the EU Water Framework Directive?" 2008-02-28 14:40:03
- - "What are the likely consequences for biodiversity of changes in water quality and sedimentation in rivers?" 2008-02-28 14:39:38
- - "What would be the ecological implications of large-scale river and floodplain restoration schemes in the UK, and would they be more cost-effective than traditional hard flood defences?" 2008-02-28 14:39:10
- - "What have been the consequences of past and present riparian engineering works, such as weirs, culverts, gravel removal, habitat fragmentation and damming, on biodiversity within and alongside rivers?" 2008-02-28 14:38:46
- - "How reliant are animal and plant populations in small nature reserves on the maintenance of habitat in surrounding non-protected areas?" 2008-02-28 14:38:20
- - "How important are core vs. peripheral areas in the conservation strategy of a species?" 2008-02-28 14:37:50
- - "For species where the concept is applicable, how can ‘source’ and ‘sink’ populations (Pulliam 1988) be identified and how should their status affect conservation management?" 2008-02-28 14:37:25
- - "What is the value of linear habitats, such as hedgerows, railways, road verges and riparian strips, as corridors for dispersal between fragmented habitat patches?" 2008-02-28 14:36:58
- - "What are the relative merits of different indices of habitat connectivity? Which of them best predict conservation value?" 2008-02-28 14:36:33
- - "How should we manage landscape mosaics for the conservation of diverse taxa that operate on different spatial scales?" 2008-02-28 14:36:08
- - "Is it better to extend existing habitat patches or create further patches within the landscape?" 2008-02-28 14:35:41
- - "What are the lag times between habitat fragmentation and the loss of species of different taxonomic and functional groups?" 2008-02-28 14:35:13
- - "What is the most appropriate and ecologically sustainable way of dealing with excess nutrients during terrestrial and freshwater habitat restoration?" 2008-02-28 14:34:39
- - "How can we effectively prioritize the most important large-scale ecological restoration projects that could be undertaken in the UK?" 2008-02-28 14:34:13
- - "What are the ecological consequences of ‘wilding’ (that is, conservation of sites using only, or very largely, natural processes) as a long-term conservation strategy?" 2008-02-28 14:33:46
- - "What are the costs and benefits of concentrating conservation work on designated sites in comparison with spreading efforts across the wider countryside?" 2008-02-28 14:32:01
- - "Are there reliable ways to predict the long-term sustainability of populations of poorly known species (e.g. most invertebrates) using a knowledge of life history and other ecological characteristics?" 2008-02-28 14:31:34
- - "What scale and type of land-use change is required to halt the decline of biodiversity by 2010 (EU heads of state committed to this in the 2001 EU summit in Göteborg)?" 2008-02-28 14:30:59
- - "Why are common moths declining and are their declines driving declines in other taxa (e.g. bats)?" 2008-02-28 14:30:34
- - "How effective as indicators of overall biodiversity are current indicators (especially birds)?" 2008-02-28 14:30:08
- - "At an international scale, what are the ecological implications of conservation actions and policies adopted within the UK?" 2008-02-28 14:29:41
- - "With what precision can we predict the ecological impact of different policy options and the ecological effects of management action?" 2008-02-28 14:24:31
- - "How effective is the current UK protected area network for protecting wildlife under current conditions?" 2008-02-28 14:23:46
- - "How can we best measure favourable conservation status for each of the species and habitats listed within the EU’s Habitat Directive?" 2008-02-28 14:23:09
- - "How can biodiversity action plans be designed to take account of larger scale population processes?" 2008-02-28 14:22:35
- - "How can soil carbon be retained and further carbon sequestered in the soil?" 2008-02-28 14:21:58
- - "What are the comparative biodiversity impacts of newly emerging types of renewable energy, such as wave energy?" 2008-02-28 14:21:30
- - "What are the potential impacts of (a) terrestrial and (b) marine wind farms on biodiversity?" 2008-02-28 14:21:02
- - "What are the consequences of biofuel production for biodiversity at field, landscape and regional levels?" 2008-02-28 14:20:28
- - "What actions are required to recreate the full range of coastal landscapes, habitats and species distributions to compensate for their loss, for example as a result of sea-level rise?" 2008-02-28 14:19:59
- - "How will changes to oceanographic conditions as a result of climate change affect marine ecosystems?" 2008-02-28 14:19:22
- - "How well suited is the current UK protected area system for conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, and how can it be enhanced in light of this?" 2008-02-28 14:18:52
- - "How can we increase the resilience of habitats and species to cope with climate change?" 2008-02-28 14:18:20
- - "How does climate change interact with other ecological pressures (e.g. invasive species and habitat fragmentation) to create synergistic effects?" 2008-02-28 14:17:42
- - "What is the likely relationship between the extent of climate change and the pattern of species extinction?" 2008-02-28 14:16:58
- - "What time lags can be expected between climate change and ecological change?" 2008-02-28 14:16:29
- - "What will be the ecological impacts of changing agricultural patterns in response to climate change?" 2008-02-28 14:15:57
- - "Which habitats and species might we lose completely in the UK because of climate change?" 2008-02-28 14:15:22
- - "Which species are likely to be the best indicators of the effects of climate change on natural communities?" 2008-02-28 14:14:52
- - "What are the effects of light pollution from built development and road lights on wildlife behaviour, mortality and demography?" 2008-02-28 14:14:17
- - "How will acidification of surface water from rising CO2 concentrations affect planktonic productivity and other marine organisms?" 2008-02-28 14:13:49
- - "How can catchment management be used toreduce diffuse pollution?" 2008-02-28 14:13:12
- - "What are the long-term impacts of depositing sewage sludge and other organic wastes on to agroecosystems?" 2008-02-28 14:12:41
- - "Of those chemicals currently or potentially released into the environment, which (individually or in combination) are now, or are likely to become, significant environmental problems, and what will these problems be?" 2008-02-28 14:12:09
- - "What are the critical thresholds for nitrogen and phosphorus inputs into waterbodies of high conservation value?" 2008-02-28 14:11:02
- - "How can one ameliorate the effects of aerially deposited nitrogen on habitats and species?" 2008-02-28 14:10:31
- - "What impact does plastic-derived litter have on the marine environment?" 2008-02-28 14:10:05
- - "What are the genetic threats to UK biodiversity posed by introgression from genetically modified organisms and what measures are available to reduce these threats?" 2008-02-28 14:09:32
- - "How can we manage microbial ecology to control invasive plant pathogens?" 2008-02-28 14:08:59
- - "What criteria should be used to determine when to intervene to deal with invasive species?" 2008-02-28 14:08:27
- - "What are the ecological impacts on semi-natural habitats and ecosystems of adjacent large developments (e.g. housing and airports)?" 2008-02-28 14:07:42
- - "What are the consequences for biodiversity of fragmentation by development and infrastructure?" 2008-02-28 14:07:14
- - "What are the impacts of recreational activities on biodiversity?" 2008-02-28 14:04:53
- - "How will CAP reform affect biodiversity at the landscape scale?" 2008-02-28 14:04:07
- - "What is the role of marine biota and benthopelagic coupling in ocean–atmosphere carbon cycling and primary production?" 2008-02-28 13:51:57
- - "How does soil biodiversity both influence and respond to above-ground biodiversity?" 2008-02-28 13:51:29
- - "What are the roles of soil biodiversity (and specifically little-known groups such as mites or nematodes)" 2008-02-28 13:51:04
- - "What is the role of biodiversity in maintaining specific ecosystem functions (e.g. biogeochemical cycles)?" 2008-02-28 13:50:03
- - "What are the benefits of protected habitats in terms of water resources, carbon sequestration and other goods and services, relative to non-protected land?" 2008-02-28 13:04:52
- - What are the common objectives that are set for different environmental issues, and how can we be sure that priorities between different issues are set in an integral, consistent and scientifically responsible way? 2008-02-28 12:29:38
- - Which policy, economic, social and institutional changes will be required to build a cradle to cradle society? 2008-02-26 13:53:24
- - What is the future contribution of bio-based materials to a more sustainable development of society? 2008-02-26 13:41:39
- - What is the potential for bioproductive systems that are serving more integrally the needs for food, feed, biomaterials and bioenergy? 2008-02-26 13:39:09
- - What is the long-term contribution of energy-efficient technology to the realization of deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions? 2008-02-26 13:33:51
- - How can we increase the effectiveness of energy efficiency policies to realize its promise in different types of stakeholders and sectors? 2008-02-26 13:29:48
- - How can we understand and influence the complex process of socio-technological change towards a more sustainable future? 2008-02-26 09:54:04
- - Comparing Alternative Models of River Basin Development 2008-02-26 09:52:04
- - Which are the opportunities and obstacles for successful introduction of small-scale energy options in the existing (European) energy markets? 2008-02-25 17:23:22
- - How will the changing hydrological cycle modify the various fresh water reservoirs, the fluxes between them, and the global distributions of these reservoirs and fluxes? How will these changes affect local ecosystems and agriculture? 2008-02-25 17:18:03
- - Which role can interactive simulation games / policy exercises play in communicating the key trade-offs in the economy-energy-climate system, in national and international context? 2008-02-25 17:15:50
- - Can populated delta areas remain sustainable hubs of societies in the very long term (centuries), given the pressures their populations exert on land and fresh water resources, and the increasing risk of flooding? 2008-02-25 17:10:44
- - How do we keep the global ecosystem stable long enough to have time to significantly reduce the population before the planet decimates the population through catastrophes at an unprecedented scale? 2008-02-25 17:08:22
- - Dynamic Biofuel Markets 2008-02-25 16:50:27
- - Can climate change induced cloud cover change be determined by means of incident solar spectral measurements? 2008-02-25 16:24:28
- - How can the individual citizen optimally profit from taking sustainability measures in his house, to ultimately realize zero-energy households? 2008-02-25 16:22:32
- - How can the understanding of the role of ground water on the energy and water balances, and hence on climate modeling be improved? 2008-02-25 15:34:21
- - In what ways can presentday lifestyles and patterns of consumption be made more sustainable? What is the role of providers and end-users in this respect? Which innovative policy arrangements need to be developed for increasing SCP-policies? 2008-02-24 16:39:25
- - Assistant Professor Environmental Social Sciences 2008-02-21 13:31:08
- - How do national transition strategies and regional-urban sustainability initiatives interrelate; do they connect, how may they be better connected through diagonal relations and forms of governance? 2008-02-21 12:32:01
- - Summer School 2008: Risk Assessment of Contaminated Sites 2008-02-21 09:20:54
- - Vacancy for Communication officer in SENSE 2008-02-20 19:44:14
- - How did, does and will technological learning (TL) contribute to more efficient use of land? What role will TL play for e.g. increasing crop yields, higher conversion efficiencies etc. How can policy support technology development and cost reductions? 2008-02-20 18:25:58
- - PaperFactory: writing week for PhD students 2008-02-20 17:38:16
- - 10-year Anniversary ICIS: The World's Future is Now! 2008-02-20 16:49:20
SENSE news SENSE news Call for SENSE PhD Award 2008 2008-02-20 13:48:13
SENSE news SENSE news Dr. Tinka Murk (WIMEK) appointed Personal Professor 2008-02-20 13:14:39
- - NETHCID Symposium: The Water Professional of Tomorrow 2008-02-20 12:24:35
- - Can we predict when climate change would lead to increasing losses from natural disasters? 2008-02-19 17:09:41
- - Intermediair PhD Career Event 2008-02-19 10:59:56
- - In the current information age, what role do information and media systems play in environmental governance? 2008-02-18 17:01:57
- - How do systems of legitimacy and accountability function under conditions of private environmental governance? 2008-02-18 16:58:03
- - Which public-private governance arrangements are most suitable for transitions towards sustainability? 2008-02-18 16:46:18
- - Integrated Assement and Agent Based Modelling for river Management 2008-02-18 16:04:02
- - How can the development of participatory sustainability indicators help to sharpen the boundary between subjectivity and objectivity in sustainable development? 2008-02-18 15:04:28
- - How can insights from current sustainability issues help to gain a better practical understanding of the well-known 'tragedy of the commons' concept, and in what ways (through awareness, regulation, knowledge) might this tragedy be overcome? 2008-02-18 15:00:42
- - Which information and communication tools (computer models, information sites, games, maps, creative hardware) and media (internet, TV, written press, education) can contribute to a more nuanced picture of sustainability issues among a wide audience? 2008-02-18 15:00:25
- - How can new types of models facilitate a better understanding of the complex interaction processes across multiple scales (temporal, spatial, functional) that drive the earth system dynamics? 2008-02-18 14:58:14
- - Which tools (rules and regulations, information and awareness, economic incentives) can help to break through established behavioural patterns and rigid structures to increase societal flexibility and avoid lock-in? 2008-02-18 14:57:40
- - Why and how do dominant societal perspectives change, and what are the implications for actor behaviour and policy? How could one develop adaptive policy to anticipate perspective change? 2008-02-18 14:55:43
- - Plural information process in a stakeholder dialogue 2008-02-18 13:14:59
- - What is the longevity of increased nutrient mobilization after restoration of degraded wetlands? 2008-02-18 12:43:30
- - How is biodiversity in freshwater tidal areas related to habitat diversification? 2008-02-18 12:43:03
- - How can we deal in an ecologically sustainable way with excess nutrients during terrestrial and freshwater habitat restoration? 2008-02-18 12:42:44
- - How is resource stoichiometry related to productivity-diversity relationships in different terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems? 2008-02-18 12:42:14
- - What is the role of soil biodiversity in ecosystem function, resilience and ability to recover after disturbance? 2008-02-18 12:41:54
- - What is the role of soil micro-organisms in phosphorus and nitrogen availability, and do nitrogen and phosphorus availability affect the character of these below ground communities? 2008-02-18 12:41:25
- - Can we link above- and below ground biodiversity in terrestrial and wetland ecosystems? 2008-02-18 12:41:00
- - What are the critical thresholds for nitrogen and phosphorus availabilities for preservation of characteristic species in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems? 2008-02-18 12:39:38
- - What is the role of biodiversity in maintaining specific ecosystem functions such as biogeochemical cycles? 2008-02-18 12:39:05
- - How does loss of species affect trophic interactions in ecosystems? 2008-02-18 12:38:47
- - How effective are well studied taxonomic groups such as birds, mammals and vascular plants as indicators of overall biodiversity if compared to less well studied groups such as insects, mosses and lichens? 2008-02-18 12:38:15
- - Does Sphagnum diversity in peatlands account for the resilience to environmental change of these systems, and can we use this to predict the fate of peatlands in terms of carbon source or sinks? 2008-02-18 12:36:25
- - How can the effects of climate change on peatlands be mitigated with management techniques? 2008-02-18 12:36:01
- - What are the consequences of 2nd generation biofuel production for biodiversity at local and regional scales? 2008-02-18 12:35:36
- - How can we adapt rural planning and water management for effective biodiversity conservation in a changing climate? 2008-02-18 12:35:08
- - How can we increase the resilience of communities to cope with climate change? 2008-02-18 12:34:41
- - How can we increase the resilience of communities to cope with climate change? 2008-02-18 12:34:19
- - How does climate change (e.g. warming, changes in precipitation patterns) interact with other ecological pressures (e.g. eutrophication, invasive species, habitat fragmentation)? Can we expect synergistic effects between these two? 2008-02-18 12:33:55
- - Can we reconstruct palaeo-hydrological systems for design of water management aiming at restoration of hydrological key processes for wetland functioning? 2008-02-18 12:33:28
- - How do coupled climate-ecosystems interact with social systems? 2008-02-18 12:32:59
- - Can we use spatial organization of ecosystems as early warning for loss of resilience with climate change? 2008-02-18 12:32:34
- - Can we foresee critical transitions in coupled climate-ecosystems at multiple spatial and temporal scales? 2008-02-18 12:31:56
- - How can hot spots of strong climate-ecosystem feedbacks be explained and mapped? 2008-02-18 12:31:23
- - Can ecosystem changes, and in particular changes in the vegetation, affect the climate or even counteract climate change? 2008-02-18 12:30:47
SENSE news SENSE news CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2008 PhD Summer School on Earth System Governance (SENSE Course S460) 2008-02-18 10:33:53
- - How do change agents from producers, civil society and governments enhance sustainable development in the global trade of products; which factors determine the performance of emerging systems of sustainable governance of these global product chain? 2008-02-18 08:51:02
- - Moving Organic Waste Management Towards Resource Management and the Biobased Economy 2008-02-15 22:51:07
- - If global warming emissions cannot effectively be reduced, can Earth Systems Engineering & Management prevent climate runaway? Earth system scenarios, evaluated from a sustainable point of view, may lead to reversal in current policies. 2008-02-15 15:04:14
- - Why does land use go havoc, globally, under pressure of new energy technologies and rising food demand? A realistic land use model is to be developed, linked LCA-type methods, reckoning with potential volumes of technologies. 2008-02-15 14:52:15
- - Why have technologies not solved all our (energy) problems? Constraints, as on abiotic resources and land, and feedback mechanisms of new energy pathways are not investigated systematically. Going from over-optimism to realism is essential for our future 2008-02-15 14:46:09
- - Which technology will be sustainable? Sustainability evaluation is to take into account physical constraints and technical, micro & macro-economic and social mechanisms. New dynamic input-output models can integrate results, as scenarios. 2008-02-15 14:29:59
- - An Ecophysiological Study of Extant Azolla Species 2008-02-15 08:58:58
- - SWOME/VROM Marktdag 2008-02-12 16:59:10
- - What does sustainable development mean at the level of the individual? 2008-02-12 16:15:30
- - Can we set up a quality management system for sustainable development such as INK, or ISO? 2008-02-12 16:14:25
- - Can we define sustainability ceilings and define which paradigm changes or system innovations allow us to break through those ceilings? 2008-02-12 16:14:05
- - Does sustainable development always mean that there is an increase, or that there is an improvement of sorts? 2008-02-12 16:13:28
- - How can we measure sustainable development in a holistic, integrated way that provides answers regarding the sustainability potential and current situation of a system (local, regional, national or global)? 2008-02-12 16:13:02
- - First National Ecogenomics Day 2008-02-12 15:20:49
- - Are there already new environmental problems and issues emerging now full efforts are focusing on bringing climate change under control? 2008-02-11 16:35:51
- - Changing Relations between Science and Society 2008-02-11 12:28:42
- - The rise and fall of terrestrial ecosystems: past, present and future 2008-02-11 09:59:36
- - Agent based modelling of collaborative catchment management, in the Pangani river basin, Tanzania 2008-02-11 09:26:04
Vacancies Vacancies Postdoc Water footprint 2008-02-08 11:22:06
- - Novel Cost Effective Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Bio-energy Production 2008-02-06 12:40:50
- - First International Ragweed Conference 2008-02-04 20:30:42
- - If sustainable development can only be realized or stimulated by an inclusive consideration of social (People), ecological (Planet) and economic (Profit) aspects, then how can these different considerations be effectively balanced in decision-making? 2008-02-04 11:34:27
- - Microbial biodiversity; how much do we really know about the role of microbes in geochemical cycles? 2008-02-01 15:16:33