Publications

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

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…

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

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…

This paper discusses the contribution of biomass in the future global energy supply. The discussion is based on a review of 17 earlier studies on the subject. These studies have arrived at widely…

Existing technologies can contribute to global warming mitigation. However, projected levels of emission-free power needed later this century to stabilize climate change appear to be so unprecedented…