MASTER'S PROGRAMME INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY- a systemic approach to Sustainable Development

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AGENTS OF CHANGE

Diploma ceremony at 29 March, 2012

Eight students of the master’s programme Industrial Ecology have received their diploma at 29 March 2012. And, again, it was clear that the field of Industrial Ecology is very broad and that Industrial Ecology students are facing big problems.

But Industrial Ecology students like to be challenged. They have done research all over the world: in The Netherlands, Hungary, Antarctica, and Africa. They like to do research that can lead to improvements, to changes that create a better world. Or as, Alexander Vollebregt, one of the supervisors said: You are Agents of  Change.

And that is correct, all students ended their thesis with recommendations for change:

• How the mainstream of consumers can be engaged in the adaptation of less resource intensive food consumption habits.
• How the waste in Tamale (Ghana) can be transformed from an environmental threat into a resource for the local economy.
• How the recycling process of Rare Earth Elements can be improved.
• How social (hygienic) and environmental circumstances can be changed by implementing proper water supply and treatment interventions.
• That natural and man-made systems are part of the same planet Earth, and how these can be simulated and studied.
• How to tender the development of a sustainable “Street of the future”.
• How a Roma community in Hungary can implement a Sustainable Livelihood by Small-scale biomass briquette production.
• And also very important: how the academic education of the master’s programme Industrial Ecology can be improved. 

We are very proud to have delivered eight new masters of science in Industrial Ecology. Eight unique enthusiastic AGENTS OF CHANGE.

More pictures of the diploma ceremony

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About Industrial Ecology

Industrial Ecology is an emergent scientific discipline that takes a systemic approach to environmental problems. This approach, integrating technical, environmental and social frames of reference, is essential for sustainable development. For that reason Industrial Ecology is sometimes referred to as the "toolbox for sustainable development" or the "science of sustainability". Industrial Ecology takes a positive approach to sustainable devepoment: "industry's answer tot the environmental challenge".

This video shows students and teachers on the unique international and interdisciplinary aspects of the Leiden-Delft master's programme on Industrial Ecology and on what it is all about.

Programme

This Master's programme is linked to an international Erasmus Mundus programme Industrial Ecology, see http://www.emmind.eu/.

Latest update: 3 April, 2012