Leo Jansen

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Leo Jansen (1978 in Parliament)

Julianus Leonardus Arnoldus (Leo) Jansen (born June 23, 1934 in Hillegersberg ; † August 16, 2012 in Woerden ) was a Dutch politician and sustainability researcher .

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Jansen studied chemical engineering and then from 1960 worked at Enka Glanzstoff and AKU in the field of plastics research; in addition, he did his doctorate in 1967 at the TU Delft . Politically active for the KVP , from which the PPR developed, he was elected to the Dutch parliament in 1973, to which he belonged until 1981. There he was particularly active in the areas of environmental and energy policy. He then moved to the Dutch Ministry of the Environment , where he last worked until his retirement in 1999 as head of the inter-ministerial program for sustainable technology development, which is considered to be internationally exemplary.

In 1990 he was appointed professor for environmental technology at the TU Delft . Since 1996 he has been the chairman of the university commission for the integration of sustainable development in education and research at the university; In 2001 this commission was transformed into a university-wide platform under his chairmanship.

He was also the chairman of the jury for the Dutch Environment and Industry Prize and a member of several consulting and program organizations in the field of technology and the environment.

Jansen was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau ( commanding class ) for his services and received the Medal of Honor from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen in 2000 . In 2002 the Open University of the Netherlands awarded him an honorary doctorate.

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  • Paul Weaver, Leo Jansen, Geert van Grootveld, Egbert van Spiegel, Philip Vergragt Sustainable Technology Development Greenleaf: Sheffield 2000, ISBN 978-1-874719-09-0

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Engelbert Schramm / Peter Wehling: Innovations for Sustainability. Results from the Dutch funding program "Sustainable Technical Development" . Ecological Economy 6/1997, pp. 31–32
personal data
SURNAME Jansen, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jansen, Julianus Leonardus Arnoldus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician and sustainability researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hillegersberg
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2012
Place of death Woerden