Publications

National inventories submitted under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are updated annually, i.e. the inventory for a new year is compiled and added and the emissions of the other…

More than 80% of the Dutch environmental and nature policy in the Netherlands is laid down in Brussels. Implementation of this policy is, however, causing conflicts with Dutch policy, as seen, for…

Are we on track? Assessing the dynamics of European sustainable development

The last decade the words sustainability and sustainable development have gradually become a modern equivalent of and complement to the Declaration of Human Rights which inspired so many people…

Rural land markets are complex and heterogeneous markets, in which many actors and factors affect land prices. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of rural land markets by developing a…

In April 2002 an international workshop on environmental quality and human well-being was held at Utrecht, the Netherlands. The workshop was aimed at obtaining consensus on basic principles and…

A radiative transfer model was used within a GCM to simulate the global shortwave radiation budget with natural vegetation cover and with the vegetation estimated for 1750, 1850, 1900, 1950 and 1990

The magnitude of the impacts of human activities on global biodiversity has been documented at several organizational levels.

This study explores the range of future world potential of biomass for energy. The focus has been put on the factors that influence the potential biomass availability for energy purposes rather than…

Since 2000 it has been formally required in the Netherlands to evaluate major infrastructure projects according to a standard manual. Here the focus is on its application to the Zuider Zee line, a…