Adaptation strategy for climate-proofing biodiversity
Nature areas in the Netherlands are vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. Under implementation of the current nature policy, sustainable conservation of all plant- and animal species in…
A key challenge for humanity is how a future global population of 9 billion can all be fed healthily and sustainably. Here, we review how competition for land is influenced by other drivers and…
Spatial planning of a climate adaptation zone for wetland ecosystems
In a publication in Landscape Ecology we present a spatial planning approach for the implementation of adaptation measures to climate change in conservation planning for ecological networks…
This user manual contains the basic information for running the simulation model IMAGE ("Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment") of PBL. The motivation for this report was a substantial…
This document describes the requirements and guidelines for the software of the IMAGE system. The motivation for this report was a substantial restructuring of the source code for IMAGE version 2.5…
The climate subsystem in IMAGE updated to MAGICC 6.0
Technical background report on the upgrade of the simple climate model MAGICC within the IMAGE model ("Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment") of PBL.
On 14 September 2010 the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency presented its first Assessment of the Living Environment. In this broad study, PBL has assessed developments as they have taken…
The territorial futures of Europe: Introduction to the special issue
This Special Issue presents some of the findings of a European research project funded by the European Spatial Observation Network (ESPON) 2006 Programme. The project was a major attempt in scenario…
Three paradigmatic traditions of scenario-building can be seen to exist. The model approach with its roots in American military scenarios of the 1950s, the design approach in French urban and regional…
The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human-induced global land-use change over the past 12,000 years
This paper presents a tool for long term global change studies; it is an update of the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE) with estimates of some of the underlying demographic and…
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