Our department develops methods for the analysis of chemicals. We follow their environmental fate, test their toxicity, advise authorities, train other laboratories in measuring them, and teach young people in this highly specialized work.
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Our department investigates whether and how economic growth and environmental sustainability can be reconciled. Applying a wide range of tools to advance at empirical, methodological and theoretical levels, our economists and econometrists also generate specific policy advice.
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The Department of Environmental Policy Analysis is a vibrant international group of about thirty researchers, faculty members and PhD students who share an interest in analysing policies, institutions and governance mechanisms in the field of sustainable development.
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Our department investigates the role of spatial variation in environmental systems to increase our understanding of environmental change and support environmental management.
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Professor Frank Biermann is awarded the Research Prize 2011 of the VU Faculty of Social Sciences.
The Jury awarded Frank Biermann the Social Science Research Prize 2011 for his outstanding qualities as a top researcher, both for his scientific work as well as for his skill in securing external research funds. Biermann’s recent theoretical development and elaboration of the concept of “Earth System Governance” is particularly significant, according to the Jury.- Seminar on international DENAMIC project at IVM
- Juliette Legler, Matthijs Hisschemöller and Jacob de Boer in the News at the start of 2012
- Heather Leslie and Dick Vethaak lead IVM-Deltares collaborative report on microplastic litter in the Dutch marine environment.
- Roy Brouwer co-author of paper on Socioeconomic development and conservation in grassland.
- Sicco Brandsma and Jacob de Boer in special edition on chromatography
- New MSc programme Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology to start in September 2012
- Paper IVM researchers Philip Ward and Hans de Moel awarded ‘Best Article Published in 2010’
- Policy Brief on Earth System Governance recommends reform of environmental governance from local to global scale.
- IPCC special report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events published
- Improved description of the North Sea from a combination of techniques. A Deltares-IVM publication with Marieke Eleveld and Hans van der Woerd
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Joyeeta Gupta on 'Will REDD be effective? Lessons from case studies.'; EPA Brown Bag lunch series
Wouter Botzen on Framing of risk and individual preferences for flood proterction, PIM Lunch Seminar
