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- - How can we influence human behaviour towards a more sustainable attitude? Besides technical development and transitions (change in processes) human behaviour (individual & groupwise) is a main tool to reach a sustainable world: people make a difference! 2008-04-29 13:33:22
- - NWO Talent Day 2008-04-29 09:51:22
- - Research Frontiers in Chalcogen Cycle Science and Technology 2008-04-28 11:39:33
- - “How can the government effectively use knowledge development regarding risk perceptions? What (new) knowledge is needed? Are what if scenarios in the area of external security useful in this approach?” 2008-04-25 14:42:21
- - “Perception of risk is changing. What bothers a civilian, what keeps him/her up at night? Is it useful to regularly test existing rules and policies?” 2008-04-25 14:42:10
- - “How can other policy areas be included in the risk approach? E.g. how can security be included in other sectors, especially spatial planning?” 2008-04-25 14:42:02
- - “What are long term effects of noise and air pollution on human wellbeing?” 2008-04-25 14:41:51
- - “What is known about the accumulation of environmental shortages and its social effects? How can these shortages be solved or prevented? What are positive environmental effects on health by vegetation, nature, movement, reduction of barriers etc.?” 2008-04-25 14:41:36
- - “Are there limitations in the national environmental policies against creating effective integral solutions on an area scale, focused on a sustainable (local) environment?” 2008-04-25 14:41:26
- - “A pro active approach by the government that would make integration of environmental policies with other social problems possible requires more interactive work methods. What are these work methods and how should the process be designed?” 2008-04-25 14:41:17
- - “How can knowledge on environmental problems be translated to spatial challenges? What are environmental criteria for a successful spatial planning? Who guards these criteria and is therefore in control?” 2008-04-25 14:41:07
- - “How can knowledge management regarding spatial planning and environmental issues be designed on a decentralized level? Using shared services or local? What will a new system cost compared to current system? ” 2008-04-25 14:40:59
- - “What are policy priorities regarding environmental quality in rural areas and cities? How can the government secure these policies?” 2008-04-25 14:40:50
- - “How can the government use functions of soil and water services as integral area development and in themes regarding storage and transport in the soil. What is the position or interest of soil functions? What new knowledge is required?” 2008-04-25 14:40:42
- - “How can you involve long term effects and consequences for later generations in the choice between ecosystem services and the involved trade off? ” 2008-04-25 14:40:33
- - “What are ecosystem services that are not (jet) profitable that (for now) doesn’t have (social, ecological, wellbeing) value?” 2008-04-25 14:40:23
- - “What nature values need to be protected in important nature areas to ensure the functioning and resilience of the ecosystem (and thus the ecosystem services)?” 2008-04-25 14:40:13
- - “What are effects of climate change to ecosystem services? Can ecosystem services be used in climate adaptation?” 2008-04-25 14:39:59
- - “Will the idea of ecosystem thinking lead to new insights into environmental problems and possible policy solutions? Has the use of ecosystem services lead to solutions to environmental problems, and what can the government learn from this?” 2008-04-25 14:39:47
- - “What are examples of ecosystem services that contribute to the realization of environmental goals?” 2008-04-25 14:39:37
- - “What is an ecosystem service, what is the value, how can you objectify the trade off between services?” 2008-04-25 14:39:28
- - “ What is a socially accepted translation of the goals of the biodiversity policy? Reasoning from environmental quality, how can the government find effective goals for biodiversity?” 2008-04-25 14:39:19
- - “What are financial (im)possibilities and what can be done to stimulate the energy transitions and programs such as ‘schoon en zuinig’?” 2008-04-25 14:39:10
- - “Regarding diversification of the energy market: what parties, besides the government, are capable of sustainably designing and maintaining the infrastructure of energy transport (including CO2)?” 2008-04-25 14:39:00
- - “What is the role of the government in the energy debate? What visions does the government develop to regulate possible environmental effects of a diversification of the energy market?” 2008-04-25 14:38:52
- - “How can emission trade, in which emission is seen as a production factor, be incorporated in the innovative actions and thoughts of a company?” 2008-04-25 14:38:44
- - “For which chemical substances affecting the environment would emission trade be a useful instrument? Where is the optimum and what can practically be reached: global, European, national or regional?” 2008-04-25 14:38:35
- - “What is the contribution of the Emission Trading Scheme in the complete climate policy? How will the price development of CO2 change the effectivity of the Emission Trading Scheme?” 2008-04-25 14:38:07
- - “What is the measurable effect of the Emission Trading Scheme on climate change?” 2008-04-25 14:37:58
- - “How can the government make sure that the climate problem stays on the agenda? What is the importance of effort sharing for social acceptation of environmental measures for the climate?” 2008-04-25 14:37:49
- - “How does Dutch help in developing countries effect global climate change? What support measures prevent climate change?” 2008-04-25 14:37:37
- - “What kind of abrupt climate changes could hit the Netherlands? What are social consequences? What would it cost to defend the Netherlands against them?” 2008-04-25 14:37:28
- - “What is the actual (environmental) innovation strength of the Dutch market and what could it be, under which conditions? What role would the market give the government?” 2008-04-25 14:37:15
- - “What has the role of the government in the process of environmental innovation been up till now and how effective is this role?” 2008-04-25 14:37:06
- - “What new instruments does the government need to implement ‘schoon en zuinig’? What governance arrangements can guide such a mix of instruments?” 2008-04-25 14:36:57
- - “What mechanisms or systems can the government use to create new or altered environmental goals, in which companies ambitiously develop and use innovations, so that the government doesn’t have to take the role of innovation expert?” 2008-04-25 14:36:45
- - “What is the role of the government in implementing an environmental innovation agenda, what (new) institutes can fulfill an intermediary role and how can improvement be measured?” 2008-04-25 14:36:37
- - “What is the added value of an environmental innovation agenda? What opportunities and limitations does such an agenda offer the government to improve environmental innovation?” 2008-04-25 14:36:28
- - “Are environmental innovations different from ‘ordinary’ innovations?” 2008-04-25 14:36:11
- - “How can environmental policy in developing countries supported by Dutch projects contribute to a sustainable environment? How can the government play a significant role in this?” 2008-04-25 14:35:57
- - “How can implementation of European rules be optimized? How can the processes be directed in such a way so that European rules are effectively and controllably implemented on a regional and local scale, implementing diverse interests?” 2008-04-25 14:35:44
- - “How can civilians be best informed and involved in environmental policy? What is the extra value of civilian participation, based on an analysis of experiences in the Netherlands and other countries?” 2008-04-25 14:35:35
- - “What can the government learn from the preferences of consumers, which insights will this give in consumer policies? ” 2008-04-25 14:35:24
- - “Is the consumer a change agent or can the government make this role more attractive to consumers? What can be learned from current policy directed at consumers?” 2008-04-25 14:35:07
- - “What possibilities and instruments are there for the government to decrease the tension between individual and collective drives and interests in the debate on sustainable consumption?” 2008-04-25 14:34:59
- - “Why would the government commit to chain responsibility? What is the role of the government in the transparency of production and consumption chains?” 2008-04-25 14:34:49
- - “How can ‘cradle to cradle’ be made profitable for a large portion of the market? What is the role of DGM in the formation of honest prices in production and consumption chains?” 2008-04-25 14:34:40
- - “What are effective stimulating measures by the government in a market where some parties are proactive in making their production process sustainable, while others just wait and see?” 2008-04-25 14:34:31
- - “What is the added value of strict policies and under which conditions can strict future environmental policies play a significant role? What are the signals?” 2008-04-25 14:34:22
- - “What does an implementation policy regarding climate look like where actors have enough working room and trust, but there is sufficient coordination and guarantees for results?” 2008-04-25 14:34:12
- - “How can a process be designed to make sure that goals and processes are clear, that the relevant actors are involved at the right moment, and that clear intermediate results are defined?” 2008-04-25 14:34:03
- - “Which new ways of working are appropriate and do justice to the desires for more integration, discussion and participation in a way that also stimulates the input of relevant actors?” 2008-04-25 14:33:50
- - How can a link be made between sustainable development and governance (ecology, economy, society) with its actors (state, society, market)? 2008-04-25 10:57:02
- - Is system stability a necessity or a hinder for sustainable development? (should we look for dynamics instead?) 2008-04-25 10:56:52
- - What does sustainable development mean for the individual? How would a sustainable individual live? 2008-04-25 10:56:37
- - How can you involve state, market and civil society when measuring sustainable development? Are their sustainability ceilings, how do you find these, and how do you break them? 2008-04-25 10:56:26
- - Does sustainable development mean an increase in size (of economic growth, or nature) an increase in quality and how do you define and measure better quality? 2008-04-25 10:56:11
- - How do you measure sustainable development? Do you measure individual domains, or the amount of consistency between them? Can system indicators be developed? 2008-04-25 10:56:02
- - Sustainability is an inherently subjective term. Jet some developments seem more sustainable than others. How can new methods to define the boundaries between subjective and objective be made? 2008-04-25 10:55:34
- - Many sustainability problems are in fact ‘tragedy of the commons’problems. In which ways (awareness, rules, insight) can this tragedy be stopped? 2008-04-25 10:55:22
- - What information and communication tools can be used to improve the perspective of the public, regarding sustainability? 2008-04-25 10:55:11
- - Multi scale: How can new models be developed to clarify interactions between different (time, geographic, functional) scales, study their consequences, and deal with them. 2008-04-25 10:55:00
- - Flexibility: the source of many of current sustainability problems can be found in a lack of flexibility. The human system is locked into certain structures and behavioral patterns. How can these be changed? 2008-04-25 10:54:51
- - Perspectives: behavior is determined by ones perspective. How does the perspective of van actor change? How can you create adaptive policies that react to these developments? 2008-04-25 10:54:39
- - How many people the Sahel can support even with the most effective management system? 2008-04-25 10:54:29
- - Specific for the Sahel: analysing the 'resource constraints' of the system: what is the relation between management system, productivity, income, livelihoods and sustainability of resource use? 2008-04-25 10:54:17
- - How can effective management strategies for rangelands dominated by open access management systems, inclusive of the implications of climate change be developed? 2008-04-25 10:54:05
- - Monitoring land degradation in drylands: how can monitoring techniques capable of differentiating between short term variations in biomass production and long-term trends be developed? 2008-04-25 10:53:46
SENSE news SENSE news René Rozendal receives SENSE PhD Award 2008 2008-04-23 16:52:32
- - “How can the Transition Management model empower actors to deal with persistent problems of mobility while striving for sustainability?” 2008-04-22 14:52:19
- - “What steering arrangements can be designed in order to contribute to the management of uncertainties with respect to the transition towards a sustainable energy system in the Netherlands?” 2008-04-22 14:50:20
- - “What are the dominant types of uncertainties as perceived by different involved actors and in different phases of the transition towards a sustainable energy system in the Netherlands?” 2008-04-22 14:48:52
- - “What are possible relations between a transition toward sustainable transportation and the transition from singular to multiple area usage?” 2008-04-22 11:58:29
- - “What are social perceptions and expectation regarding sustainable transportation and under which conditions are people willing to cooperate with its introduction?” 2008-04-22 11:58:15
- - “Are different groups of people willing and able to improve accessibility, livability and environmental quality by limiting their individual freedom, comfort and pleasure in use of motor vehicles and how can you get people to do this?” 2008-04-22 11:57:59
- - “What are wishes and suggestions regarding the right to high quality transportation in relation to the right of a good living environment?” 2008-04-22 11:57:30
- - “What expectations for the future do different groups of people have regarding positive and negative wellbeing and environmental effects of traffic and transportation, considering the expected growth of population and mobility?” 2008-04-22 11:57:21
- - “What kind of (policy)measures regarding transport safety and transport handling under conditions of increasing growth of participants and feats, are needed to achieve a solid and sustainable basis in the population?” 2008-04-22 11:57:08
- - “How does the increasing (un)reliability of traffic and transportation systems influence the perception of the ability to move and the use of infrastructure and transportation methods?” 2008-04-22 11:56:42
- - “What are social perceptions and judgments regarding the price-quality relationship between different modes of transportation? What kind of wishes and suggestions are there to improve this relationship?” 2008-04-22 11:56:30
- - “What do different groups consider to be the most urgent environmental problems considering transportation (air pollution, noise, insecurity, claims on space etc.)?” 2008-04-22 11:56:19
- - “What individual, social and institutional barriers are there when introducing new technologies for more efficient, cleaner and quieter transportation methods en could these barriers be removed?” 2008-04-22 11:56:09
- - “How can more clarity be created on the influence of change in transportation systems, in combination with other social developments, on the perceptions, appreciation and actual transportation behavior of different groups of people/organizations?” 2008-04-22 11:55:58
- - “How can a solid and sustainable basis for transportation policies, transportation safety policies and policies regarding the effective use of infrastructure be created?” 2008-04-22 11:55:46
- - “How can long term scenarios for sustainable transportation be judged and evaluated, regarding systematic changes in infrastructure, modes of transportation, energy supply, users attitudes and behavior patterns? ” 2008-04-22 11:55:33
- - “What are social visions on (im)possibilities and (in)desirabilities of collective transport systems, local, regional, national and international?” 2008-04-22 11:55:22
- - “What is the meaning of acceptability, related to other strategies in mobility management, of price policy in transportation?” 2008-04-22 11:55:09
- - “How can price-quality comparisons and possible improvements be made of different forms of transportations, according to the perceptions and wishes of different types of travelers?” 2008-04-22 11:54:57
- - “How can different social groups chose between motorized mobility and the quality and safety of their living environment?” 2008-04-22 11:54:41
- - “How can sustainable mobility with new technology for more economical, cleaner, more silent, and compacter personal transportation and traffic regulation be implemented?” 2008-04-22 11:54:31
- - “In which way can governments, companies and consumer organizations work together more effectively to quantify and prevent excessive environmental impact?” 2008-04-22 11:54:21
- - “Which intended an unintended behavioral responses can occur when implementing new technologies, regulations and institutional arrangements regarding household consumption?” 2008-04-22 11:54:11
- - “Which supporting activities by market parties (producers, sales people and consumer organizations) could create a substantial impulse to sustainability?” 2008-04-22 11:53:59
- - “How can sustainability of different products and services be created through interactions between designers, producers, salespeople, users and waste managers?” 2008-04-22 11:53:48
- - “How can community support for increasing sustainability be set up, e.g. information centrals, internet advising and/or so called eco-teams?” 2008-04-22 11:53:36
- - “Does change need to be focused on the consumer or is an indirect approach preferable, by changing technical, cultural and socio-economic contexts of homes?” 2008-04-22 11:53:25
- - “Does change need to be focused on specific behaviors, behavioral patterns or lifestyles, or even on general value systems, regarding landscape, surroundings, nature and environment?” 2008-04-22 11:53:14
- - “How does the vulnerability of households relate to the nature of the house, the design and the possession and use of diverse installations and devices?” 2008-04-22 11:53:02
- - “What are the effects of new products and activities in and around households for the future and for environmentally friendly behavior?” 2008-04-22 11:52:51
- - “Which effects on wellbeing and behavior result from the environmental impact of different activities of households (e.g.waste, noise production, energy and water use)? What categories of activities and products are especially problematic? ” 2008-04-22 11:52:39
- - “Which future visions on consumption possibilities and behavioral patterns exist in different groups?” 2008-04-22 11:52:26
- - “What necessities and inevitabilities regarding environmental taxes are mentioned by different groups?” 2008-04-22 11:52:05
- - “How and how much are homes ‘prisoners’ of the supply structure, the socio-economic organization and the technical environment and facilities, that are focused on having and using more and less useful resources, supplies, devices and services? ” 2008-04-22 11:51:53
- - “How large is the awareness, by who and when, that environmental taxes result from a chain of co-responsibilities of designers, producers, distributers, salespeople, users and waste managers?” 2008-04-22 11:51:41
- - “How can the awareness of environmental impacts be used to create an alert attitude towards environmental risks and sustainable behavior?” 2008-04-22 11:51:30
- - “How large and how complete is the awareness of environmental impacts of different groups of the population, what is this awareness based on, and how can this awareness be changed?” 2008-04-22 11:51:19
- - “How much is known about multifaceted environmental impacts of possessions and activities of homes?” 2008-04-22 11:51:06
- - “How can ‘dramatic situations’ be defined for the prevention of disasters, when at the same time, attention has to be paid to spatial needs, nature and environmental protection, and security needs of directly involved?” 2008-04-22 11:50:51
- - “How can be ascertained whether (multidimensional) goals have been reached in ‘integral water management’?” 2008-04-22 11:50:32
- - “How can new guiding arrangements such as the European water framework directive be imbedded internationally?” 2008-04-22 11:50:20
- - “How can the national governmental agreement water (nationaal bestuursaccoord water) effectively be regionalized?” 2008-04-22 11:50:08
- - “How can people directly interested in water be better involved in policy making?” 2008-04-22 11:49:55
- - “How do new guiding concepts in water management relate to traditional guiding concepts and tools, such as physical, technical measures to prevent flooding, strict rules and regulations to protect water quality and supplies?” 2008-04-22 11:49:42
- - “How can the social value, the appreciation value and the future value of water be determined as a function of place, time and form, in such a way that the tension between economic, ecologic and social appreciation is made clear?” 2008-04-22 11:49:30
- - “What historical, cultural and/or legal barriers need to be breached (and how), to ‘accommodate water’, e.g. using emergency flood areas?” 2008-04-22 11:49:17
- - “How do social actors perceive the risks of water surpluses, shortages and loss of quality?” 2008-04-22 11:49:06
- - “Do social actors recognize their water problems, and can they connect it to their own activities?” 2008-04-22 11:48:51
- - “How do people experience water when they use it? What are functions, qualities, risks and problems for different actors, such as homes, businesses, farmers, tourists, water boards, and drink water companies?” 2008-04-22 11:48:34
- - “What shape should information on risks have and what role can information take in managing (exposure to) unsafe situations?” 2008-04-22 11:48:22
- - “What are the main causes of feelings of insecurities and how can these be dealt with in security policies of companies and the government?” 2008-04-22 11:48:10
- - “What do people know about the relation between their own behavior and the exposure to external and/or social security risks?” 2008-04-22 11:47:58
- - “What cultural differences exist in the perception and rating of external and/or social security risks?” 2008-04-22 11:47:47
- - “What do ‘co-producers’ and receivers suggest to reduce noise pollution?” 2008-04-22 11:47:36
- - “How are different kinds of noise pollution noticed and rated by different kinds of exposed groups?” 2008-04-22 11:47:25
- - “How significant are the contributions of planners, designers, producers, distributers, users and garbage disposers of products, when talking about the noise pollution by these products?” 2008-04-22 11:47:14
- - “What public health policy measures are considered acceptable or necessary when considering air pollution?” 2008-04-22 11:47:02
- - “What kind of behaviors are there to avoid the negative effects of air pollution?” 2008-04-22 11:46:48
- - “What sources and actors are seen as most responsible for air pollution?” 2008-04-22 11:46:34
- - “What kind of awareness is there in different organizations on the nature, intensity, circumstances, and the health, wellbeing and environmental effects of air pollution?” 2008-04-22 11:46:21
- - “How can transactions between producers and receivers of air pollution, noise pollutions and external accident risks be given shape? What are policy-legal obstacles? What incentives are needed?” 2008-04-22 11:46:08
- - “What changes regarding rules/regulations, prices (subsidies, fines) and/or information programs are required for reducing air pollution, noise pollutions and external accident risks?” 2008-04-22 11:45:55
- - “What are effects on air pollution, noise pollutions and external accident risks of spatial zoning, technical measures at the source or further along the chain, supervision and control measures?” 2008-04-22 11:45:42
- - “What are the effects on wellbeing and reactive behavior of different mitigating actions that have been undertaken already? What were these focused at, and what have they actually achieved regarding transactions between subjects and sources?” 2008-04-22 11:45:31
- - “What are dominant behavioral responses to social insecurity, and how do people protect themselves? ” 2008-04-22 11:45:11
- - “Who ‘suffers’ where from sources of air pollution, noise pollutions and external accident risks?” 2008-04-22 11:44:56
- - “What kind of visions for the future do different groups of people have regarding air pollution, noise pollutions, external accident risks and/or social insecurity?” 2008-04-22 11:44:35
- - “What kind of causal relation do people make between government policy and environmental quality, and what needs are there for new and/or more powerful government policy?” 2008-04-22 11:44:16
- - “Regarding the quality of the surroundings, what role does the (varying) confidence in the government play and are material compensation (which?) acceptable or not, for who an why?” 2008-04-22 10:04:58
- - “How do different people rate air pollution, noise pollutions, external accident risks and/or social insecurity, e.g. how important is silence compared to the other items, and how is the social importance of a source of noise taken into account?” 2008-04-22 10:04:40
- - “Under what circumstances (not just physical) do different groups of people experience significant amounts of air pollution, noise pollutions, external accident risks and/or social insecurity?” 2008-04-22 10:04:26
- - “How can a communal landscape management be created so that it creates a wide basis?” 2008-04-22 10:04:10
- - “How can participation of involved groups be improved without creating to many resistances?” 2008-04-22 10:03:36
- - “How can safety in the street, surrounding leisure areas and shopping centers be improved?” 2008-04-22 10:03:24
- - “What kinds of arrangements and instruments are needed to improve surface and groundwater management in living areas, so that troubles can be avoided?” 2008-04-22 10:03:05
- - “How can the steadily increasing trouble with noise be dealt with? What measures are attainable and acceptable?” 2008-04-22 10:02:54
- - “How can spatial planning better incorporate future interests regarding the environmental quality?” 2008-04-22 10:02:42
- - “How can a more healthy, safe and comfortable living environment be realized, what is required in understanding of the problem, social communication, cooperation and policy, and what kind of institutional impediments are there?” 2008-04-22 10:02:29
- - “What lessons can be learned from the policy experiments concerning participative policymaking by financially involved groups, social organizations, and/or civilians?” 2008-04-22 10:02:15
- - “How can an accurate determination on the effects of nature and landscape policies be made and improved, considering the complex relation between effects of policies and nature quality?” 2008-04-22 10:02:03
- - “In what way do changes in quality of nature and landscape modify perception, wellbeing and behavioral patterns, how are these modifications quantified and incorporated in policy and private initiatives and how can this be improved?” 2008-04-22 10:01:50
- - “How important are landscape and nature for the wellbeing (including health) of different groups of people and why is this?” 2008-04-22 10:01:36
- - ”What methods can be used to value and appreciate nature and landscape, especially in light of the necessity of sustainability?“ 2008-04-22 10:00:29
- - ”What kinds of visions for the future are there regarding landscape and nature in the Netherlands, on what are they based, how do they relate to behavioral patterns and how are they changed or could they be changed?“ 2008-04-22 10:00:07
- - ”How important and/or valuable are different kinds of landscapes and nature types?“ 2008-04-22 09:59:56
- - ”Better insight is needed in dominant behavior patterns when recreating in nature and landscape? What trends can be seen, what is their basis and what are their consequences for quality of nature and landscape and its variation in functions?” 2008-04-22 09:59:43
- - ”In what way and under which conditions would nature relevant knowledge, images, practices and organizations be made more sustainable?“ 2008-04-22 09:59:28
- - ”On what does the knowledge, perception, attitude, need, preference and actual behavior of diverse users in relation to agriculture and nature management, areas and resources depend?“ 2008-04-22 09:59:16
- - ”How is the knowledge, perception, attitude, need, preference and actual behavior of diverse users in relation to agriculture and nature management, areas and resources?“ 2008-04-22 09:59:03
- - ”How is the social awareness of nature and landscape problems spread in temporal, geographical, social, cultural and economic sense?“ 2008-04-22 09:58:48
- - ”Where and with who can sustainable qualities be created, in light of different economical, ecological, social and cultural functions of nature and landscape?“ 2008-04-22 09:58:32
- - ”How can nature and landscape qualities be sustainably developed?“ 2008-04-22 09:58:01
- - “Landscape and nature are constantly under pressure due to human activities. How do different parts of the population perceive current developments and how can these be explained?” 2008-04-22 09:57:40
- - Are the levels of environmental contaminants in China high enough to cause toxic effects in humans and ecosystems, either in China itself or in countries where Chinese products are consumed? 2008-04-21 16:57:39
- - To what extent do environmental contaminants accumulate in food chains (aquatic, terrestrial and human) in China and how comparable are the patterns and levels of contaminants in food chains in China to those in the Netherlands (Europe)? 2008-04-21 16:55:47
- - How can Dutch environmental scientists contribute to an assessment of environmental pollution, and in particular the contaminants in food chains in China? 2008-04-21 16:55:10
- - Transitions in Water Management: Open International Symposium 2008-04-21 09:44:24
- - Enhancing transition management practice by researching the following questions: -What are the roles of transition researchers in transition trajectories? -How can one characterize the scientific practice evolving in those trajectories? -Which normat 2008-04-18 15:37:56
- - Hoe duurzaamheid te toetsen? [How to test sustainability?] 2008-04-18 15:35:18
- - Cost Benefit Analysis for the Green Heart Can a cost-benefit analysis be developed for the Green Heart? When qualities of the various functions (living, working, recreation, agriculture, water, nature) have been indicated and a transition process is st 2008-04-18 15:33:31
- - Existing instruments for steering such as a development company or existing spatial instruments do not seem fit for realizing ambitions with regard to sustainability. How can a process be organized in which such ambitions get realized? 2008-04-18 15:32:18
- - How can recent insights in social learning processes be applied to involving broader groups in sustainability transition trajectories, in order to ensure democratic legitimacy of the trajectory? 2008-04-18 15:30:18
- - Question(s) on: Developing Design and Management for Radical Change (entrepreneurial design, managing policy punctuations, transition management, strategic niche management, reflexive design, management of self-organized critical systems, innovation syst 2008-04-18 15:27:54
- - BIOECON Conference on “The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Biodiversity Conservation Instruments” 2008-04-17 18:05:05
- - Climate change may alter the fate, behaviour and exposure of organisms to environmental pollutants. What are the effects of these altered contaminant levels on organisms in the environment, and ultimately, humans? (Drs. S. v. Leeuwen & Dr J. Leger, IVM) 2008-04-17 13:14:17
- - Is the increased prevalence of health problems in Western society related to exposure to mixtures of environmental chemicals in early life stages? (Dr J. Legler and Dr T. Hamers, IVM-VU, Amsterdam) 2008-04-17 13:12:55
- - What will be the influence of climate change on the occurrence of shellfish toxins along the North Atlantic/North Sea coasts? (Prof Dr J. de Boer, IVM-VU, Amsterdam) 2008-04-17 13:11:59
- - Evaluation of global transitions in land and energy requirements of human food consumption: historical development, present state and future options 2008-04-16 16:15:13
- - Nanotechnologie voor niet nanotechnologen 2008-04-16 14:22:36
- - SYMPOSIUM "Duur(zaam) verdiend" 2008-04-15 13:20:03
- - “How can the Netherlands contribute to climate investigations, analysis, and research programs in developing countries?” 2008-04-15 11:22:13
- - “How can extensive networks of proxy climate data be set up?” 2008-04-15 11:21:59
- - “How can a comprehensive mechanistic explanation of the glacial-interglacial variations in climate and greenhouse gasses be articulated?” 2008-04-15 11:21:47
- - “How do key processes that drive some global and regional climate changes are poorly known (e.g., ENSO, NAO, blocking, MOC, land surface feedbacks, tropical cyclone distribution) change?” 2008-04-15 11:21:37
- - “What is the relationship between changes in the average climate and weather extremes?” 2008-04-15 11:21:22
- - “How effective were adaptation measures used in past in different regions of Europe to reduce the adverse impacts of climate variability and extreme meteorological events?” 2008-04-15 11:21:13
- - “How do changes in frequency and severity of extreme climate events with climate change will affect all sectors?” 2008-04-15 11:21:00
- - “How do pests, diseases and weeds respond to elevated CO2 and climate change?” 2008-04-15 11:20:51
- - “What is the role of disturbance regimes, i.e., frequency and intensity of episodic events and that of alien species invasions, as they interact with ecosystem responses to climate change itself and pollution?” 2008-04-15 11:20:34
- - “How did climatic extremes vary in the past?” 2008-04-15 11:20:20
- - “Can the resolution of typical climate models be improved to enhance the robustness of many model responses of tropical cyclones to climate change?” 2008-04-15 11:20:10
- - “How can better global data sets for extremes analysis be created?” 2008-04-15 11:19:59
- - “How can sufficient evidence to determine whether trends exist in tornadoes, hail, lightning and dust storms at small spatial scales be generated?” 2008-04-15 11:19:48
- - “How can satellite records on hurricane frequency and intensity be best interpreted?” 2008-04-15 11:19:38
- - “How can knowledge of nonlinear changes in ecosystems, predictability of thresholds, and structural and dynamic characteristics of systems that lead to threshold and irreversible changes be improved?” 2008-04-15 11:19:26
- - “Can both conceptual and quantitative models be created that can begin to give both scientific and policy communities advance warning of when the capacity of systems is beginning to be eroded or thresholds are likely to be reached?” 2008-04-15 11:19:11
- - “Which tools can be used for assessing the conditions that lead to tipping points, where a system changes or deteriorates rapidly, perhaps without further forcing?” 2008-04-15 11:18:57
- - “How can systems be managed to minimize the risk of irreversible changes? How close are we to tipping points/thresholds for natural ecosystems such as the Amazon rain forest? What positive feedbacks would emerge if such a tipping point is reached?” 2008-04-15 11:18:47
- - “How resilient is the climate system? When will critical values be reached? Has a point of no return already been reached?” 2008-04-15 11:18:31
- - “What are mechanisms of onset and evolution of past abrupt climate change and associated climate thresholds?” 2008-04-15 11:18:06
- - “How do proxy data for temperature respond to rapid global warming and the influence of other environmental changes?” 2008-04-15 11:17:56
- - “How can differing amplitudes & variability observed in available millennial-length Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstructions, as well as the relation of these differences to choice of proxy data & statistical calibration methods be reconciled? 2008-04-15 11:17:46
- - “What are co-benefits and sustainable development implications of mitigation options and consumer preferences?” 2008-04-15 11:15:41
- - “What are the factors which contribute to this synergy, and how can policies to enhance adaptive capacity reinforce sustainable development and vice versa?” 2008-04-15 11:15:32
- - “What is the synergy between sustainable development and adaptation to climate change?” 2008-04-15 11:15:13
- - “What patterns of biodiversity represent specific value for the future? ” 2008-04-15 11:14:57
- - “How can data on certain key taxa—especially invertebrates, plants, fungi, and significant groups of microorganisms, including those in the soil be more effectively gathered?” 2008-04-15 11:14:44
- - “What are bio-climatic limitations of prevalent plant species?” 2008-04-15 11:14:34
- - “How can species-specific climate envelope models be validated against the plethora of range shifts observed in nature?” 2008-04-15 11:14:21
- - “How can simple large-scale or even global models that can be used to indicate P(hosphate) use, transport, and eutrophication based on land use be developed?” 2008-04-15 11:14:13
- - “How do soil P(hosphate) concentrations, transports and pools interact with land use and change in land use to affect P transport?” 2008-04-15 11:14:02
- - “How can our ability to predict P(hosphate) loads be advanced? E.g. by developing more generally applicable P loading models and Improved spatial data sets for soils and topography?” 2008-04-15 11:13:51
- - “How can groundwater be better included in climate change impact assessments?” 2008-04-15 11:13:41
- - “How does soil moisture and streamflow change and how does this effect analyses of changes in droughts?” 2008-04-15 11:13:32
- - “How can the gap between detailed process-oriented studies and simpler empirical models for fisheries forecasting be bridged?” 2008-04-15 11:13:20
- - “Inland waters: What are contemporary and historical patterns of water infrastructure, use, and supply? What is the access of humans to surface and groundwater sources? Sustainability of fisheries?” 2008-04-15 11:13:07
- - “Coastal and marine systems in all parts of the world: Where is nutrient input and overharvesting affecting fisheries? Where are declining fisheries affecting access to protein?” 2008-04-15 11:12:53
- - “How can we develop and expand networks to share knowledge and experience on climate change and coastal management among coastal scientists and practitioners at different time and spatial scales?” 2008-04-15 11:12:41
- - “What are methods for identification and prioritization of coastal adaptation options?” 2008-04-15 11:12:30
- - “How can impact and vulnerability assessments within an integrated assessment framework that includes a natural human sub-system interaction be improved?” 2008-04-15 11:12:21
- - “How can humans adapt to coastal change?” 2008-04-15 11:12:09
- - “How can coastal change be predicted more accurately?” 2008-04-15 11:11:59
- - “How can better baselines of actual coastal changes be made?” 2008-04-15 11:11:49
- - “What is the impact of a rising atmospheric CO2 on ocean acidification?” 2008-04-15 11:11:35
- - “What are impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems (not only temperatures, but also altered flow regimes, water levels, and ice cover)?” 2008-04-15 11:11:23
- - “What are Impacts of North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation?” 2008-04-15 11:11:13
- - “What will happen to Atlantic Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation beyond the end of the 21th century?” 2008-04-15 11:11:03
- - “How can climate drift be accounted for when assessing change in many oceanic variables?” 2008-04-15 11:10:51
- - “What are the contributions of anthropogenic forcing to ocean heat content increase and glacier melting?” 2008-04-15 11:10:29
- - “How can internal climate variability be minimized so that aspects of attribution studies are less limited?” 2008-04-15 10:21:13
- - “Global average sea level rise from 1961 to 2003 appears to be larger than can be explained by thermal expansion and land ice melting. What other explanations are there?” 2008-04-15 10:20:44
- - “How can the representation of interactions between key drivers of change in scenarios be improved?” 2008-04-15 10:20:34
- - “How can scenarios be improved for poorly specified indicators?” 2008-04-15 10:20:24
- - “How can consistency in climate scenarios be best achieved?” 2008-04-15 10:20:15
- - “What are climate change scenarios for beyond 2100?” 2008-04-15 10:20:05
- - “What are scenarios to describe abrupt climate changes?” 2008-04-15 10:19:55
- - “How can adaptation be incorporated into climate change impact estimates?” 2008-04-15 10:19:45
- - “What are scenarios to describe the future evolution of the world under different and wide-ranging assumptions about how societies, governance, technology, economies will develop in future?” 2008-04-15 10:19:32
- - “What are the consequences of a wider range of scenarios for socio-economic and technological developments?” 2008-04-15 10:19:21
- - “When is it worth the effort to incorporate the space dimension into a climate or species model and what are relevant scales?” 2008-04-15 10:19:04
- - “How can interaction between terrestrial and atmospheric systems with economic trends or cycles be used to improve models on the changing nitrogen cycle?” 2008-04-15 10:18:53
- - “How can local and regional datasets be used to improve large scale assessments?” 2008-04-15 10:18:41
- - “How can climate models and scenarios be used to determine climate change at different spatial scales (global, national, regional, etc., including interaction between different regions/nations) and time scales?” 2008-04-15 10:18:28
- - “How can populations at risk and the lag time of climate change impacts be determined?” 2008-04-15 10:18:18
- - “How can methods and tools be designed both to address specific climate change problems and to introduce them into mainstream policy and planning decision-making.” 2008-04-15 10:18:08
- - “How can precipitation and extremes of precipitation be modeled more accurately at the required spatial scale, so that hydrological consequences can be determined?” 2008-04-15 10:17:56
- - “How can we better understand forced changes in precipitation and surface pressure?” 2008-04-15 10:17:45
- - “How can precipitation be more accurately measured?” 2008-04-15 10:17:34
- - “What are the roles of different factors that have increased tropospheric ozone concentrations since pre-industrial times?” 2008-04-15 10:17:23
- - “How can confidence in observations of trends in the meridional overturning circulation be improved?” 2008-04-15 10:17:07
- - “How much damage is avoided, or impacts are postponed, by reducing or stabilizing emissions?” 2008-04-15 10:16:56
- - “How can experience gained in dealing with climate-related natural disasters be used in understanding the coping strategies and adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities, and in defining critical thresholds of impact to be avoided?” 2008-04-15 10:16:43
- - “What is the nature of interactions among drivers in particular regions and across scales?” 2008-04-15 10:16:26
- - “How can interdisciplinary communication between scientist be improved?” 2008-04-15 10:15:56
- - “How can models be made that describe the relation between ecosystem changes and the nexus of poverty, food insecurity, and land degradation? ” 2008-04-15 10:15:41
- - “How can poverty projections be integrated with global food supply and demand projections, so that distributional consequences can be determined?” 2008-04-15 10:15:25
- - “First, integration across disciplines appears increasingly necessary with respect to understanding the webs of causality underlying land change. What can be done to arrange this?” 2008-04-15 10:15:14
- - “What are Impacts of multiple drivers (e.g., increasing human activities and ocean acidity) to modify or even magnify the effects of climate change at both poles?” 2008-04-15 10:15:01
- - “What are indirect impacts of climate change?” 2008-04-15 10:14:48
- - “Very little past research addresses impacts of climate change in a context of other trends with the potential to exacerbate impacts of climate change or to limit the range of response options. What can be done about this?” 2008-04-15 09:46:21
- - “How can the interacting responses of diverse sectors impacted by climate change be analyzed?” 2008-04-15 09:46:08
- - “How can a better understanding of the socio-economic consequences of climate change for different European regions with different adaptive capacity be created?” 2008-04-15 09:45:54
- - “How can integration of impact studies be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:45:43
- - “What are possible trends in societal, economic and technological change with or without climate change?” 2008-04-15 09:45:31
- - “What are interactions with other effects such as globalization, poverty and institutional developments on climate change?” 2008-04-15 09:45:20
- - “What is the combined role of Arctic freshwater discharge, formation/melt of sea ice and melt of glaciers/ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctic on global marine processes?” 2008-04-15 09:45:00
- - “Where can information on the rates nor the processes by which ice sheets grew and disintegrated in the past be found?” 2008-04-15 09:44:49
- - “How can the sensitivity of ice sheet surface mass balance (melting and precipitation) to global climate change be better constrained?” 2008-04-15 09:44:38
- - “How can models be created that address key processes that could contribute to large rapid dynamical changes in the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets that could increase the discharge of ice into the ocean?” 2008-04-15 09:44:29
- - “How can more knowledge of basal processes and of ice shelf dynamics be generated, so that understanding of ice flow processes and ice sheet stability is improved?” 2008-04-15 09:44:17
- - “How can sufficient data be generated to draw any conclusions about trends in the thickness of Antarctic sea ice?” 2008-04-15 09:44:06
- - “How can health-impact models for projecting climate-change-related impacts under different climate and socio-economic scenarios be developed?” 2008-04-15 09:43:54
- - “Literature on energy price elasticity in the residential and commercial sectors in the different regions is very limited. What can be done about this?” 2008-04-15 09:43:42
- - “What are the worldwide potential and cost to mitigate transport’s green house gas emissions?” 2008-04-15 09:43:30
- - “What will research and development outcomes in several areas (especially biomass fuel production technology and its sustainability if used on a massive scale, and batteries) be?” 2008-04-15 09:43:18
- - “What will happen to the world oil supply and its impact on prices and alternative transport fuels?” 2008-04-15 09:43:07
- - “What will the future usage of fossil fuels be?” 2008-04-15 09:42:55
- - “Who benefits from watershed services, and how are these services influenced by changes in particular watersheds?” 2008-04-15 09:42:25
- - “How can internal recycling and sequestration mechanisms be included in freshwater eutrophication models in such a way that understanding and predictive capability is improved?” 2008-04-15 09:42:15
- - “What is the impact of climate change on water related areas with little or no previous investigation?” 2008-04-15 09:42:04
- - “How can changes in freshwater resources be detected and attributed, with particular reference to characteristics of extremes?” 2008-04-15 09:41:51
- - “What is the impact of climate change on water quality?” 2008-04-15 09:41:36
- - “how can an understanding and estimation, in quantitative terms, of climate change impacts on freshwater resources and their management be made?” 2008-04-15 09:41:23
- - “How can long-term monitoring of climate-sensitive physical (e.g., cryosphere), biological (e.g., ecosystem) and social sectors (e.g., tourism, human health) be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:41:12
- - “What are the impacts of future climate scenarios on aquatic biota?” 2008-04-15 09:41:01
- - “How can large spatial-scale remote sensing be integrated with long-term field studies data on ecosystems, to better address scale mismatches between the climate system and ecosystems?” 2008-04-15 09:40:43
- - “How can large-area, long-term field studies be set up to evaluate observed impacts of climate change on managed and unmanaged systems and human activities?” 2008-04-15 09:40:32
- - “Can models be adapted so that adaptive responses and changes in human attitudes and behaviors can be incorporated?” 2008-04-15 09:40:21
- - “How do ecosystems response to changes in the availability of important nutrients and carbon dioxide” 2008-04-15 09:40:10
- - “What is the robustness and resilience of ecosystems, what is their qualitative and quantitative nature of their response to human impacts and repair efforts, in which ways can ecological processes interact across scales of space and time?” 2008-04-15 09:39:58
- - “How can agro-ecosystems with minimization of environmental side effects be used and intensified?” 2008-04-15 09:39:46
- - “When is It better to integrate or to segregate human and conservation activity?” 2008-04-15 09:39:31
- - “What is the status and economic value of most ecosystem services, and should their depletion be tracked in national economic accounts?” 2008-04-15 09:39:18
- - “What drivers are most important for accelerating disturbance regimes? What are anticipated responses to climatic changes?” 2008-04-15 09:39:06
- - “What factors govern the capacity of ecosystems to provide services?” 2008-04-15 09:38:49
- - “How can the response of ecosystems to changes in the availability of important nutrients, including carbon, especially through increasing atmospheric pathways be made clear?” 2008-04-15 09:38:38
- - “How does biodiversity regulate ecosystem functioning at local and regional scales, and how can this help in predicting unexpected, accelerated, and potentially irreversible changes triggered by alterations of local and regional biodiversity” 2008-04-15 09:38:26
- - “How can the quantity of cropland conversion and the use of cropland over time be made clear?” 2008-04-15 09:38:15
- - “What is the impact of novel chemicals and pharmaceuticals entering the biosphere on ecosystems and human well-being?” 2008-04-15 09:38:01
- - “How can unequivocally linking ecosystem changes to changes in well-being, and vice versa be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:37:48
- - “What are environmental key factors influencing ecosystem structures that determine functionality and provisioning services of ecosystems?” 2008-04-15 09:37:34
- - “What explains Multi-decadal changes in diurnal temperature range?” 2008-04-15 09:37:14
- - “Which types of ecosystem changes trigger the emergence of disease? Which types of diseases and which ecosystems are potentially the most significant?” 2008-04-15 09:37:02
- - “What is the overall sustainability of current fisheries management?” 2008-04-15 09:36:49
- - “What are the trade-offs in other services inherent in different management practices?” 2008-04-15 09:36:30
- - “How can adaptation options for coping with the adverse effects of climate change on crop productivity, on the quality of aquatic ecosystems, on coastal management and the capacity of health services be better understood, identified and prioritized?” 2008-04-15 09:35:58
- - “How will climate change influence the utilization of bio-fuel crops and what are the consequences for competition for land between bio-energy crops and food crops?” 2008-04-15 09:35:45
- - “How can generalized knowledge of the adaptive capacity of food, fibre, forestry and fishery systems across a range of climate and socio-economic futures be provided?” 2008-04-15 09:35:33
- - “How can crop model inter-comparison studies be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:35:22
- - “What is the CO2 response for crops other than cereals?” 2008-04-15 09:35:10
- - “What are economic aspects of climate change impacts and adaptation options related to water resources?” 2008-04-15 09:34:59
- - “How can potential costs and benefits of climate change be measured, with and without adaptation and mitigation measures and how can these costs be translated into policy?” 2008-04-15 09:34:46
- - “How can communication between policymakers and scientists be improved in such a way that managers receive comprehensive policy relevant information, and scientists receive policy relevant research questions?” 2008-04-15 09:34:22
- - “What are the implications of climate change for water, air, health and environmental standards?” 2008-04-15 09:34:10
- - “What approaches are there for including climate change in management policy and institutions?” 2008-04-15 09:33:53
- - “How can adaptation measures be aligned across different sectors and what additional tools are required to facilitate the appraisal of adaptation options across multiple water-dependent sectors?” 2008-04-15 09:33:40
- - “What are human-dimension indicators of climate change impacts on freshwater?” 2008-04-15 09:33:30
- - “How can the risks and uncertainties of climate change be effectively communicated?” 2008-04-15 09:33:18
- - “What are core assumptions made in ecosystem models, what are their consequences, and what are alternatives?” 2008-04-15 09:33:04
- - “How can biogeochemical cycles be coupled so that a whole earth system model would include these cycles, coupled with atmospheric chemistry/dynamics models, river transport models, and coastal and open ocean biogeochemistry/circulation models?” 2008-04-15 09:32:52
- - “How can an interactive vegetation-climate dynamical system be included in future scenarios so that synergies between land use driven climate change and greenhouse warming can be addressed?” 2008-04-15 09:32:40
- - “How can accurate data for climate model calibration/verification be acquired for different time scales, e.g. areas expected to undergo large land use change in the future should be equipped with an observational system to measure climate change?” 2008-04-15 09:32:25
- - “How can climate impact models (including better understanding of mechanism of climate impacts) be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:31:26
- - “How can improvements in coupling climate models with the land-use change, including vegetation change and anthropogenic activity such as irrigation, be made?” 2008-04-15 09:31:14
- - “How can impacts of changes in climate variability be integrated with impact modeling efforts?” 2008-04-15 09:31:03
- - “How can the modeling of extreme weather changes and climate events be improved, at different time and spatial scales?” 2008-04-15 09:30:46
- - “How can the simulation of some modes of variability, notably the Madden-Julian Oscillation, recurrent atmospheric blocking and extreme precipitation be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:30:27
- - “How can models determining estimates of the strength of different feedbacks in the climate system be made more consistent?” 2008-04-15 09:30:12
- - “How can a proven set of model metrics comparing simulations with observations, that might be used to narrow the range of plausible climate projections, be developed?” 2008-04-15 09:29:56
- - “What is the magnitude of future carbon cycle feedbacks?” 2008-04-15 09:29:45
- - “What is the effectiveness of responses on biodiversity conservation from a social science point of view?” 2008-04-15 09:29:28
- - “How can modeling of aquatic biodiversity change that conveniently fits the species-area paradigm be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:29:15
- - “How do we estimate species loss caused by habitat conversion for species that prefer native habitat but can also survive in the agricultural landscape?” 2008-04-15 09:29:04
- - “What is the relation between extinctions and habitat manipulation or loss, and how can this be quantified in a species-area relationship?” 2008-04-15 09:28:51
- - “Who gets to make decisions affecting biodiversity?” 2008-04-15 09:28:26
- - “How can effective incentives be designed for conserving biodiversity?” 2008-04-15 09:28:11
- - “How do human actions affect biodiversity and the structure and function of ecosystems? ” 2008-04-15 09:27:59
- - “How can biodiversity values be quantified?” 2008-04-15 09:27:44
- - “What are biodiversity trends in biomes such as dry lands, grasslands, marine and freshwater areas?” 2008-04-15 09:27:28
- - “How do variations at a genetic level influence adaptability to changing environments?” 2008-04-15 09:27:11
- - “How can knowledge of biodiversity trends be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:26:59
- - “How can the understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and the resilience of ecosystem services at a scale relevant to human well-being be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:26:46
- - “How can vegetation changes which result from human activities, be included in dynamic models that estimate changes in carbon fluxes as a result of vegetation being altered by climate change?” 2008-04-15 09:26:25
- - “How much carbon is emitted to the atmosphere as a result of land cover change?” 2008-04-15 09:26:13
- - “How can understanding, characterization and taxonomisation of non-technological options to reduce green house gas emissions be improved?” 2008-04-15 09:25:58
- - “Can a robust, comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date bottom-up assessments of green house gas reduction opportunities and associated costs in buildings be provided?” 2008-04-15 09:25:41
- - “What are the impacts of current and future regional carbon balances over Arctic landscapes and polar oceans on global climate change?” 2008-04-15 09:25:21
- - “What are the direct and indirect effects on climate change of the changing distributions of aerosols?” 2008-04-15 09:25:04
- - “What are the nature and causes of natural variability of climate and its interactions with forced changes?” 2008-04-15 09:24:51
- - “What fraction of the future fossil-fuel carbon will remain in the atmosphere and not be exchanged with oceans or the land biosphere to provide radiative forcing (difference between the incoming radiation energy and the outgoing radiation energy)? ” 2008-04-15 09:24:34
- - “How will the future emissions of methane change and what are the causes of these changes?” 2008-04-15 09:24:02
- - “How might clouds respond to global climate change?” 2008-04-15 09:23:47
- - “Surface and satellite observations disagree on total and low-level cloud changes over the ocean. How can this be explained and how can this be dealt with?” 2008-04-15 09:23:16
- - “How can land surface properties and land-atmosphere interactions that lead to radiative forcing (difference between the incoming radiation energy and the outgoing radiation energy) be quantified more accurately?” 2008-04-15 09:23:00
- - “How can the geographical distribution and time evolution of the radiative forcing (difference between the incoming radiation energy and the outgoing radiation energy) due to changes in aerosols during the 20th century be more accurately characterized? 2008-04-15 09:22:39
- - “Can the causes of, and radiative forcing (difference between the incoming radiation energy and the outgoing radiation energy) due to stratospheric water vapor be quantified in a better way?” 2008-04-15 09:22:04
- - “How do aerosols modify cloud properties and what are the consequences for the magnitude of indirect radiative effects?” 2008-04-15 09:21:49
- - “How can human and natural systems cope with critical rates of change and tipping points in climate change, and can these findings be integrated in existing climate impact studies?” 2008-04-15 09:21:34
- - “What are the feasibility, costs, and benefits of potential adaptation (to climate change) options, measures and technologies, and are there regional differences?” 2008-04-15 09:21:16
- - Arsenic Disposal Scorodite Precipitation 2008-04-12 09:55:51
- - Saline threats for agriculture, saline opportunities for ecology 2008-04-11 08:06:57
- - How to treat the tons of waste originated from olive oil industry in order to decrease the amount of waste storage ponds used nowadays, which are of great environmental impact? 2008-04-10 17:48:49
- - “Public antagonism towards wildlife due to perceived human health threat: What forms public attitudes and can these be influenced (e.g. considering public antagonism towards wildlife due to perceived human health threat)?” 2008-04-10 13:40:51
- - “Adoption of monetary value as the key criterion in conservation decision making: How can biodiversity values be integrated appropriately into decision making (e.g. by adoption of monetary value)?” 2008-04-10 13:40:34
- - “Decline in engagement with nature: How can longitudinal studies of changes in attitude and behavior be set up (considering a decline in engagement with nature)?” 2008-04-10 13:40:19
- - “Decline in engagement with nature: How do people engage with nature (considering a decline in engagement with nature)?” 2008-04-10 13:40:05
- - “Internet and new e-technologies connecting people with information on the environment: How can novel technologies designed to encourage engagement, data collection and dissemination be developed and deployed ?” 2008-04-10 13:39:42
- - “Nature conservation policy and practice may not keep pace with environmental change: What are methods for risk assessment for the purpose of setting conservation priorities?” 2008-04-10 13:37:31
- - “Nature conservation policy and practice may not keep pace with environmental change: How can forecasting of biodiversity responses to environmental change be tested, and what are institutional and cultural constraints to change?” 2008-04-10 13:37:16
- - “Dramatic changes in fresh water flows: What are cost-effective management interventions in the face of dramatic changes in fresh water flows?” 2008-04-10 13:36:48
- - “Dramatic changes in fresh water flows: Can models for cumulative impacts, increased hydrological connectivity and decreased ecological connectivity be developed (in the face of dramatic changes in fresh water flows)?” 2008-04-10 13:36:32
- - “Dramatic changes in fresh water flows: What are consequences of ecological impacts of dramatic changes in fresh water flows?” 2008-04-10 13:36:19
- - “Sea level rise resulting in loss of coastal and intertidal habitats: What are wider freshwater, agriculture, and coastal biodiversity adaptation options (e.g. managed retreat) and consequences for future terrestrial and marine spatial planning?” 2008-04-10 13:36:07
- - “Sea level rise resulting in loss of coastal and intertidal habitats: How can dynamic melting of ice sheets be quantified?” 2008-04-10 13:35:54
- - “Sea level rise resulting in loss of coastal and intertidal habitats: How can dynamic melting of ice sheets be quantified?” 2008-04-10 13:30:49
- - “Extreme high-water coastal events: How can plans for scenarios and restoration be made in the face of extreme high-water coastal events?” 2008-04-10 13:30:16
- - “Extreme high-water coastal events: How can resistant coastlines be designed in the face of extreme high-water coastal events?” 2008-04-10 13:30:02
- - “Extreme high-water coastal events: How can coastal vegetation and intertidal systems respond in the face of extreme high-water coastal events?” 2008-04-10 13:29:46
- - “Increase in coastal and offshore power generation: How can a comparative cost-benefit analysis of renewable energy schemes, identification of optimal locations and scale be made? Can a life-cycle analysis be included, to include biodiversity impacts? 2008-04-10 13:29:32
- - “Reduction of coldwater continental shelf marine habitats: What are the implications for management of marine ecosystems, fisheries and protected areas (considering the reduction of coldwater continental shelf marine habitats)?” 2008-04-10 13:28:38
- - "Reduction of coldwater continental shelf marine habitats: How can climate envelope-type models be developed to predict the movement and extinction probability of species, including scale and extent of marine habitats and habitat specificity of species?" 2008-04-10 13:28:25
- - “Ocean acidification: What are possible interventions in response to ocean acidification?” 2008-04-10 13:27:53
- - “Ocean acidification: What are population and biological community consequences of reduced calcification (in relation to ocean acidification)?” 2008-04-10 13:27:41
- - “Step change in demand for food and hence pressure on land for agriculture: Can new regulatory approaches be developed (in the face of increased food prices and production incentives)?” 2008-04-10 13:27:27
- - “Step change in demand for food and hence pressure on land for agriculture: How will farmers respond to increasing food prices and production incentives?” 2008-04-10 13:27:12
- - “Step change in demand for food and hence pressure on land for agriculture: What results may be expected of a risk assessment for novel cropping systems?” 2008-04-10 13:26:59
- - “Increased demand for biofuel and biomass: How will demand, uptake and regulation change, considering an increased demand for biofuel and biomass?” 2008-04-10 13:26:48
- - “Increased demand for biofuel and biomass: What is the impact and scale of development, considering an increased demand for biofuel and biomass?” 2008-04-10 13:26:38
- - “Increased demand for biofuel and biomass: What is the typical or expected biodiversity associated with different biofuel crop(s)?” 2008-04-10 13:26:19
- - “Increased fire risk: What are potential new technologies for detecting fire (in the face of increased fire risk)?” 2008-04-10 13:26:05
- - “Increased fire risk: how can fire management regimes for biodiversity be assessed (in the face of increased fire risk)?” 2008-04-10 13:23:10
- - “Increased fire risk: How can fire management regimes for biodiversity be developed (in the face of increased fire risk)?” 2008-04-10 13:22:55
- - “Implications for biodiversity of the adoption of an ecosystem approach: How can we develop and test a framework for an ecosystem approach, which quantifies the economic, social, soil and biodiversity elements?” 2008-04-10 13:22:42
- - “Geo-engineering the planet to mitigate the effects of climate change: What are possible geo-engineering schemes to mitigate the effects of climate change? What are their risks and opportunities?” 2008-04-10 13:22:26
- - “Frequency of extreme weather events: What is the sensitivity of different species to combinations of extreme weather?” 2008-04-10 13:22:12
- - “Frequency of extreme weather events: Can mesocosm experiments be used (and if so, how) to determine possible impacts of extreme weather events?” 2008-04-10 13:21:55
- - “Frequency of extreme weather events: What are possible impacts of extreme weather events?” 2008-04-10 13:21:36
- - “Frequency of extreme weather events: What will be the frequency of extreme weather events and how will this change when the climate changes?” 2008-04-10 13:21:19
- - “Action to facilitate species range change in the face of climate change: What are trade-offs between translocations and increasing connectivity (considering species range shifts)?” 2008-04-10 13:21:01
- - “Action to facilitate species range change in the face of climate change: What mechanisms are involved in species range shifts and how do these processes work?” 2008-04-10 13:20:44
- - “Action to facilitate species range change in the face of climate change: How effective is translocation to facilitate species range change in the face of climate change?” 2008-04-10 13:20:29
- - “Large-scale restoration for iconic wildlife and habitats: What are socio-economic costs and benefits of large-scale restoration for iconic wildlife and habitats?” 2008-04-10 13:20:10
- - “Large-scale restoration for iconic wildlife and habitats: What can be consequences of 'iconic species' restoration for other species?” 2008-04-10 13:19:55
- - “Large-scale restoration for iconic wildlife and habitats: At what scale are 'iconic species' and habitats viable for preservation / restoration?” 2008-04-10 13:19:38
- - “Facilitation of non-native invasive species through climate change and 'invasional meltdown': What are effective conditions for control strategies?” 2008-04-10 13:19:26
- - “Facilitation of non-native invasive species through climate change and 'invasional meltdown': What are enhancing conditions for potential invaders?” 2008-04-10 13:19:12
- - “Facilitation of non-native invasive species through climate change and 'invasional meltdown': What could be conditions for an 'invasional meltdown' (when the invasion of 1 non-native species clears the path for the next and so on)?” 2008-04-10 13:18:57
- - “Facilitation of non-native invasive species through climate change and 'invasional meltdown': What could be conditions for an 'invasional meltdown' (when the invasion of 1 non-native species clears the path for the next and so on)?” 2008-04-10 13:18:57
- - “Impacts of control efforts for novel pathogens: How can a balance between conservation of an ecosystem and effectiveness of disease control be found? How can/could this be implemented?” 2008-04-10 13:18:31
- - “Direct impact of novel pathogens: Is intervention possible once a novel pathogen has impact?” 2008-04-10 13:18:14
- - “Direct impact of novel pathogens: How can/could novel pathogens have impact on ecosystem(s)? ” 2008-04-10 13:17:58
- - “Direct impact of novel pathogens: What are emergent disease threats from novel pathogens?” 2008-04-10 13:17:39
- - “Biotechnologically engineered pathogens (e.g. virally vectored immunocontraceptives): What is the likelihood of biotechnologically engineered pathogens to spread outside their intended range?” 2008-04-10 13:17:16
- - “Biotechnologically engineered pathogens (e.g. virally vectored immunocontraceptives): What is the host specificity and ability to evolve of biotechnologically engineered pathogens?” 2008-04-10 13:16:55
- - “Artificial life and biomimetic robots: What kind of regulatory oversight is needed for artificial life and biomimetic robots, can they effectively be stopped if necessary?” 2008-04-10 13:16:31
- - “Artificial life and biomimetic robots: How should and how will artificial life or biomimetic robots impact an ecosystem (both qualitative and quantitative)?” 2008-04-10 13:16:01
- - “Artificial life and biomimetic robots: In what way(s) can/could artificial life or biomimetic robots be introduced into the environment?” 2008-04-10 13:15:34
- - “Artificial life and biomimetic robots: What kinds of artificial life and biomimetic robots are already available or in development and how are they relevant for climate and ecosystems impact?” 2008-04-10 13:15:10
- - “Nanotechnology: What kind of regulation is needed?” 2008-04-10 13:14:37
- - “Nanotechnology: How should and how will nano-particles impact an ecosystem (both qualitative and quantitative)?” 2008-04-10 13:14:17
Vacancies Vacancies UNIVERSITAIR DOCENT MILIEUMAATSCHAPPIJWETENSCHAPPEN (1,0 fte) 2008-04-10 11:52:18
- - “Nanotechnology: In what way(s) can nano-particles be introduced into the environment?” 2008-04-10 09:59:41
- - “Nanotechnology: What kind of nano-particles will be developed and utilized and how could they be relevant for climate and ecosystems impact?” 2008-04-10 09:51:12
- - Transdisciplinariteit in natuur- en milieubeleid 2008-04-09 15:01:26
- - Scientific Symposium SOIL & WATER 2008-04-07 11:09:45
- - Which policy and communication procedures can be formulated for elaborating a platform for participatory policy-making for Integrated Watershed Management? 2008-04-03 19:15:38
- - Which land and water management models and scenarios are useful for supporting participatory decision-making and what is the minimal data set required to apply them for this purpose? 2008-04-03 19:05:17
- - International Symposium on Transboundary Waters Management 2008-04-02 12:14:13
- - Exploring the landscape memory concept at interacting spatial scales to implement resilience in cons 2008-04-02 10:19:34
- - Aerosol modelling with TM5 and Lotus/Euros 2008-04-02 10:16:30