Environmental Balance 2007
Every year the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) publishes an Environmental Balance in the framework of the Dutch Environmental Management Act. This Environmental Balance provides an overall picture of the emissions and environmental quality in the Netherlands in relation to current policy and societal trends. Other problem areas and policy dilemmas are also dealt with here. The part dealing with the analysis of the achievement of environmental policy targets has been derived from the MNP publication ‘Realisation of Environmental targets – Progress Report 2007’ (In Dutch: Realisatie Milieudoelen, Voortgangsrapport), published in May this year. The focus of the Environmental Balance is on broad policy assessment.
The 2007 edition of the Environmental Balance consists of two parts, just as the Nature Balance, which will be published simultaneously with the Environmental Balance. The first part deals with the relationship between the relevant societal trends and environmental quality (Chapter 1), while the second part consists of four chapters in which the trends related to specific environmental themes are integrally discussed. The thematic chapters focus on climate change (Chapter 2), air quality (Chapter 3), environmental quality in rural areas (Chapter 4) and environmental quality in urban areas (Chapter 5). The relationship between environment and nature is dealt with mainly in Chapter 4.
The statistical underpinning of the analysis – including new emission data, provisional data for 2006 and data on environmental costs − is included in the annexes. A detailed statistical survey of the emission data and a large number of other environmental indicators are available in the Environmental and Nature Compendium (in Dutch only) − a joint publication of the Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP), Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR).
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- Publication title
- Environmental Balance 2007
- Publication date
- 24 October 2007
- Publication type
- Publication
- Publication language
- Dutch
- Product number
- 92122