The world is too small to simultaneously produce enough food (including meat) for everyone and to deliver biofuels on a large enough scale to slow down climate change and maintain biodiversity. The…
Noise valuation in ex-ante evaluations of major road and railroad projects
In many European countries, the impact of new road and railroad infrastructure is assessed by performing a cost-benefit analysis, monetising as many relevant effects as possible. Considering that…
Changes in natural areas: from conditions to quality
Abiotic conditions in natural areas have improved since 1990, with the extent of improvement varying with the different abiotic conditions in the natural areas. This could be concluded from a study on…
Introduction: Evolutionary methodologies for analyzing environmental innovations and the implications for environmental policy
Introduction to a double-sized special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change, which provides an overview of evolutionary approaches to environmental innovation, with a focus on formal…
Models in evolutionary economics and environmental policy
This paper presents a review on evolutionary economic modelling in relation to environmental policy. The authors discuss three areas in which evolutionary economic models have a particularly high…
European air pollution assessments: Co-production of science and policy
Policy making in the field of Air Pollution on an European level takes place in two different arenas. Negotiations on reducing emissions of pollutants began in the context of the United Nations…
Surface N Balances in Agricultural Crop Production Systems in China for the Period 1980-2015
The projections suggested that 15 provinces (or municipalities) in the middle and southeastern part of China except Jiangxi and Shanxi provinces would become the high-risk region by 2015. The level of…
Quantifying the effectiveness of climate change mitigation through forest plantations and carbon sequestration with an integrated land-use model
Carbon sequestration in plantations can play an important role in mitigating the build-up of atmospheric CO 2 . The actual magnitude depends on natural and management factors, social barriers, and the…
In 2007, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from fossil fuel use and cement production increased by 3.1%, which is less than the 3.5% increase in 2006. The emissions from China, with an…
The increased use and potential growth of biomass for energy has triggered a heated debate on the sustainability of those developments as biomass production is now also associated with increased…
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