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7 Feb 2012 |
Water and climate expert Prof. dr. Pavel Kabat to lead global research institute
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| Water and climate expert Professor Pavel Kabat has been appointed Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, effective on, February 1, 2012.
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6 Feb 2012 |
HighNoon Roundtable discussion on bi- and multilateral Indo-European cooperation
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| On Monday 28 November 2011 in New Delhi a roundtable discussion on Indo-European Cooperation on Climate Research and innovation was organised by the EU Delegation to India in cooperation with... more |
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Workshop on Glacier, Snow Melt and Runoff in the Himalayas
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| Regional collaboration on glaciers, snow melt and runoff in the Himalayas: identifying knowledge gaps and overcoming data availability limitations
Workshop in Kathmandu, 6-7 February
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25 Jan 2012 |
Wageningen University collaborates with China on carbon cycle research
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| The chairgroup Meteorology and Air Quality at Wageningen University will intensify its collaboration with Nanjing University, China. Over the next three years, seven researchers will collaborate on... more |
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24 Jan 2012 |
Invitation to compete in the Delta Alliance Young Professional Award
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| In preparation for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012, the Delta Alliance invites young delta professionals around the world to present their solutions to... more |
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20 Dec 2011 |
Wageningen University wins EU program on IWRM Postgraduate Research Training in Latin America
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| The European Union allocates 1,25 million euros to the chairgroup Irrigation and Water Engineering (IWE) of Wageningen University, part of Wageningen UR' to set up a postgraduate research training... more |
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13 Dec 2011 |
Detailed tree species maps boost European forestry policy
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| More than 35% of Europe's land area is covered by forests. These offer a wide range of 'ecosystem services', which is to say, products and amenities that societies need. Forests not only supply wood... more |
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8 Nov 2011 |
Wageningen expert to address European Parliament
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| Today the European Parliament discusses about drought issues in Europe. A few top researchers are invited to give their expert opinion about the issue in this meeting called 'Europe facing water... more |
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7 Nov 2011 |
Wind energy lessens under heat wave conditions
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| During the summer 2003, high temperatures and drought conditions in Europe led to a reduction of the wind force with direct consequences on the wind energy power, reduced by 22%. The study was... more |
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Effective arguments for the protection of biodiversity are needed
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| BESAFE - an EU-funded, Framework program 7 (FP7) project investigating how much importance people attribute to alternative arguments for the protection of biodiversity is officially launched on 7th... more |
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3 Nov 2011 |
New research project on the environmental and socio-economic role of European forests
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| On the 1st of November, the INTEGRAL project (Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes), funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union, has started.... more |
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Collaboration between Wageningen UR and Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology
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| The collaboration between Wageningen UR and the Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) in Bangladesh has successfully started. On 19th and 20th October the inception workshop for a... more |
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27 Sep 2011 |
LifeWatch and the National Roadmap Large-Scale Research Infrastructure
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| On August 31, a unique consortium of 23 leading Dutch institutes with expertise in biodiversity research and eScience submitted a proposal to NWO, with the aim to establish the LifeWatch Research and... more |
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26 Sep 2011 |
A spatial assessment of ecosystem services in Europe: Methods, case studies and policy analysis - phase I
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| Present data on ecosystem services are strongly biased towards provisioning services such as food and timber production, while spatial information of so called regulating and cultural ecosystem... more |
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New EU-South America research on Amazon die-back, climate and deforestation starts in October
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| Deforestation in the Amazon has been decreasing over the last 6 years, but it appears that the downward trend may have stopped, this year. Apart from deforestation, the Amazon rainforests are also... more |
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22 Sep 2011 |
Book publication: Exploring the Visual Landscape
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| The book 'Exploring the Visual Landscape. Advances in Physiognomic Landscape Research in the Netherlands' was recently published by IOS Press. The book is an initiative of Delft University of... more |
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16 Sep 2011 |
International innovation needed for more efficient nitrogen management
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| Nitrogen is essential to life. Its use in chemical fertilisers has had enormous benefits: feeding the ever-increasing world population would be an impossible task without chemical nitrogen... more |
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16 Aug 2011 |
High-quality climate research in the Netherlands guaranteed by ICOS-nl
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| At Thursday August 18th 2011, eight knowledge institutes in The Netherlands launch their climate research partnership in the form of ICOS-nl. The launch will take place at the KNMI measurement mast... more |