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Sustainable consumption dilemmas

To examine which considerations play a role when individuals make decisions to purchase sustainable product varieties or not, we have conducted a large scale field experiment with more than 600…
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Mainstreaming biodiversity in economic sectors: An analytical framework.

The concept of mainstreaming was originally developed for situations where governments or intergovernmental organizations with explicit public mandates took the lead. Nowadays it is increasingly…
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A road map for global environmental assessments

Increasing demand for solution-oriented environmental assessments brings significant opportunities and challenges at the science-policy interface. Solutions-oriented assessments should enable…
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Policy coherence in the water-land-energy-food-climate nexus

More synergies than conflicts exist between European policy objectives for water, land, energy, food and climate. There are numerous positively interacting policy objectives, providing opportunities…

Emissions of transboundary air pollutants in the Netherlands, 1990–2015: Netherlands Informative Inventory Report 2017

In the 2017 Informative Inventory Report (IIR) by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Dutch emission data on transboundary air polluting substances have been…

Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands, 1990-2015: National Inventory Report 2017

This report documents the Netherlands' submission of its annual greenhouse gas emission inventory for 2017, in accordance with the guidelines provided by the United Nations Framework Convention on…

Public-public development cooperation

Development cooperation policy in the Netherlands has become increasingly oriented towards facilitating private sector development and public-private partnerships. As opposed to public private…
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Monitoring progress of the circular economy in the EU

The European Commission’s draft monitoring framework for a circular economy, which is currently under review, may benefit from broadening it to include indicators that measure both the progress of the…
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Current challenges of implementing anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change in models contributing to climate change assessments

Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) represents one of the key drivers of global environmental change. However, the processes and drivers of anthropogenic land-use activity are still overly…

Towards universal electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa

With the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the global community has committed to achieving universal electricity access by 2030. This study analyses the technology and investment…