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Scarcity in a Sea of Plenty? Global Resource Scarcities and Policies in the European Union and the Netherlands

Current high prices of food, oil and many other resources are indications of increasing scarcity. This scarcity, however, has little to do with stock depletion. Badly functioning markets and wrong…

The nitrogen load on Dutch Natura 2000 areas; local effects and strategies

To assess nitrogen levels on a local scale, an experimental version of the OPS model was combined with monitoring measurements from Natura 2000 areas. In a pilot study, expected emission trends were…
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The implications of climate policy for the impacts of climate change on global water resources

This paper assesses the implications of climate policy for exposure to water resources stresses. It compares a Reference scenario which leads to an increase in global mean temperature of 4 °C by the…

Life events and the gap between intention to move and actual mobility

Life events are frequently mentioned as a reason why people do not behave according to their mobility intentions. However, there is little empirical evidence concerning the role of life events in the…
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Climate change under aggressive mitigation: the ENSEMBLES multi-model experiment

This paper present results from multiple comprehensive models used to simulate an aggressive mitigation scenario based on detailed results of an Integrated Assessment Model. The experiment employs ten…

Indirect land use change emissions related to EU biofuel consumption

Biofuels have recently been promoted in policies as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector. However, biofuel production in itself also induces emissions directly as well as…

The Copenhagen Accord: abatement costs and carbon prices resulting from the submissions

As part of the Copenhagen Accord, individual countries have submitted greenhouse gas reduction proposals for the year 2020. This paper analyses the implications for emission reductions, the carbon…

Institutions in theories of land markets: illustrated by the Dutch market for agricultural land

Theories of land markets should be intellectually sound and should be able to explain and predict market outcomes, such as price and volume of transactions, changes in these and locations of different…
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Territorial Impact Assessment: a critical examination of current practice

The cohesion – or lack thereof – between European policies has long been the topic of debate and has resulted in various initiatives for improvement, a very recent example being the Better Regulation…
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Other roles for governments needed in sustainable supply chain management?

Sustainably produced goods are growing in popularity. The share of sustainable coffee and wood on the Dutch market is approaching 50 p. Producers in developing regions have to meet the requirements…
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