July 21, 2017

Coupling Sanitation Systems with Agricultural Production

Now you know why it is important to include faecal sludge management as part of each sanitation solution. You have also heard about the potential benefits for a community when recourses are recovered from faecal sludge. But how does this work? How can we make valuable products from human waste? Let’s find out in the next video with PhD researcher Rosanne Wielemaker. She will explain how the nutrients in human waste can become a valuable resource by using them as fertilizers in agricultural production. Learning Objectives: Understand the value human waste in making valuable products like fertilizers in agricultural production. Describe adaptation; robustness and/or intervention strategies for STE systems.

October 19, 2021

Gentle Food Processing for Better Sustainability

"It is evident that the availability of sufficient, high quality food without over-exploiting our Earth, will be one of our prime challenge in the coming decades. This challenge is complicated by an already changing climate, which reduces the potential to intensify the cultivation of the current agricultural land, and the potential to sustainably cultivate new land, and may complicate the use of the oceans for food production. It is interesting that the system that converts our raw mat...

February 21, 2023

How can crops survive extreme weather?

All over the world, the effects of climate change are affecting food production. Long dry periods, desertification, heavy rainfall, and flooding pose a serious threat to agriculture. Biologist Prof. Rashmi Sasidharan (UU) studies how plants deal with extreme weather conditions. What specific characteristics help plants to survive? And how can they serve as an inspiration for the kind of crops we grow? In collaboration with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development & Future Food Utrecht (UU).

October 1, 2025

An analysis of the current developments and scenarios for the transition to a fossil-free energy society this century

This century, greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides must be significantly reduced. Greenhouse gases absorb and emit infrared radiation that contributes to global warming, which can lead to irreversible negative consequences for humans and the environment. Greenhouse gases are caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as crude oil, coal, and natural gas, but livestock farming and agriculture are also to blame. In addition, deforestation contributes to more greenhouse gases. Of the natural greenhouse gases, water vapor is the main cause of the greenhouse effect, accounting for 90%. The remaining 10% is caused from high to low by carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, chlorofluorocarbons, and ozone. In addition, there are industrial greenhouse gases such as fluorinated hydrocarbons, sulphur hexafluoride, and nitrogen trifluoride that contribute to the greenhouse effect too. Greenhouse gases are a major cause of climate change, with far-reaching consequences for the welfare of humans and animals. In some regions, extreme weather events like rainfall are more common, while others are associated with more extreme heat waves and droughts. Sea level rise caused by melting ice and an increase in forest fires are undesirable effects of climate change. Countries in low-lying areas fear that sea level rise will force their populations to move to the higher-lying areas. Climate change is affecting the entire world. An estimated 30-40% o f the carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels dissolves into the surface water, resulting in an increased concentration of hydrogen ions. This causes the seawater to become more acidic, resulting in a decreasing of carbonate ions. Carbonate ions are an important building block for forming and maintaining calcium carbonate structures of organisms such as oysters, mussels, sea urchins, shallow water corals, deep sea corals, and calcareous plankton.

November 28, 2016

Societal Aspects of the Biobased economy

August 1, 2016

The Biobased Economy (introductory modules of societal aspects)

October 2, 2014

Introduction to the Biobased Economy

June 7, 2019

Business & the sustainable development goals

(RSM, 2018, 123 pag) . In dit boek presenteert Rob van Tulder een raamwerk voor ontwerpen vanbedrijfsstrategieën die effectief zijn voor duurzame ontwikkeling. Bevat daarnaast case studies van bedrijven die SDGs toepassen in hun strategie.

October 19, 2021

The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture

February 27, 2023

Passport to the cow cosmos: Rumen Level 1 to 4

This series contains four modules covering the following aspects of rumen function and health: Level 1: Basic ruminant stomachs anatomy, physiology, and function The rumen microbiome and microbial ecology in the cosmos Basic rumen fermentation Level 2: A brief overview of rumen development The clinical examination of the rumen Selected forestomach disorders of individual adult animals Level 3: Rumen fermentation disorders – SARA Assessment of rumen function at herd level Level 4: Vegetation, ruminants, and feed degradation Methane production, CO2 equivalents and global warming Sustainabilty and plantetary boundaries with safe and just spaces How do we/ how should we measure this? (units and scales) Solutions for the future