Sustainable energy: trade-offs and synergies between energy security, competitiveness, and environment
Sustainable energy policies are needed in Europe to reduce air pollution and greenhouse-gas emissions. EU-policies aim to improve the EU's energy security and enhance its' competitiveness by promoting…
How do trade, poverty and climate policies affect biodiversity?
Over the past 50 years humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history. However, the changes that have been made to ecosystems have…
Endogenous agricultural land supply: estimation and implementation in the GTAP model
Land needs to be included in economic models since land can move into or out of agricultural production due to several reasons, leading to exceeding or undershooting of the total available…
The Global Atmospheric Environment for the Next Generation
Air quality, ecosystem exposure to nitrogen deposition, and climate change are intimately coupled problems: we assess changes in the global atmospheric environment between 2000 and 2030 using 26 state…
Colloquium: How Member States use flexibility in EU directives
Generally speaking, EU environmental directives allow Member States to flexibly implement the required legislation in their national contexts. The aim of our colloquium, which took place on 8 December…
The role of nitrogen in world food production and environmental sustainability
In this paper the environmental consequences of FAO's agricultural projection until 2030 are shown. The FAO projection is focussed on agricultural production and trade in order to meet the Millennium…
N2O and NO emission from agricultural fields and soils under natural vegetation
In this paper we present the latest analysis of N 2 O and NO emission measurement data for agricultural soils which has been used in the update of the IPCC Guidelines for National Emission Inventories…
New insights into the scale of the particulate matter problem in the Netherlands
There are strong indications that the particulate matter concentration in the Netherlands is currently 10-15% less than previously observed. The main reasons are the lower observed concentrations in…
Impacts of land-use change on biodiversity: an assessment of agricultural biodiversity in the European Region
The lowest ecosystem quality values are found in intensively used agricultural areas in lowlands (e.g. The Netherlands and northern France) and irrigation systems (e.g. Greece), whereas relatively…
Sustainability policy in Europe is currently dominated by the Lisbon Strategy for the promotion of more growth and jobs. This dominance represses other goals for sustainable development. Revision of…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
