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Natural Sciences of the Environment
Natural Sciences of the Environment
Research School for Socio-Economic and
Natural Sciences of the Environment
Natural Sciences of the Environment
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| Five years of the climate agreement: “We can keep the earth habitable” Exactly five years ago, 196 countries signed the UN Paris Climate Agreement. The ambitious agreements have not been collecting dust over the past five years, to the great delight of Rik Leemans, professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at WUR. He feels that global warming is being taken seriously at last. And with the proposed measures it looks like we will manage to significantly curb the increase in temperature over the next 80 years. Tuesday 15 December 2020 |
| Prestigious Green Talent Award for SENSE PhD candidate Glory Edwards (WUR-ESA) Every year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosts the prestigious Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development to promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas from various fields of research. The award, under the patronage of Minister Anja Karliczek, honours young researchers each year. The winners come from numerous countries and scientific disciplines and are recognised for their outstanding achievements in making our societies more sustainable. Selected by a jury of German experts, the award winners are granted unique access to the country’s research elite.
Glory Ikponmwosa EDWARDS (Nigeria), PhD Student in Environmental Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, works on developing scenarios for pathways to a sustainable rice system in Nigeria. She develops these pathways from a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods including stakeholder participation leading to the development of a fuzzy cognitive map; scenario development linking with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways; and land use modelling. Wednesday 28 October 2020 |
Upcoming events
| Conference on Critical Perspectives on Governance by Sustainable Development Goals 26-27 January 2021, online |
| Nationale Conferentie Circulaire Economie 1 February 2021, online |
| Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting NERN 9-10 February 2021, online |
| National Open Science Festival: meet / share / inspire / create 11 February 2021, online |
| Conference: Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability 24-26 February 2021, online |
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PhD graduations
| Coleen Carranza Investigating soil moisture dynamics for improved applications of radar satellites in agricultural water management
Wageningen University, Soil physics and Land Management Graduation date: 25 January 2021 |
SENSE vacancies
| Two (Senior) Lecturers/researchers in Irrigation Engineering, IHE Delft Application deadline: 30 January 2021 |