PBL Note Sustainability of biomass in a bio-based economy
The conversion of the present European economy based on fossil fuels into a more bio-based economy will probably be restricted to about 10 per cent of final energy and feedstock consumption in 2030…
Harvesting Transition? Energy Policy Cooperation or Competition around the North Sea
The Northwest European electricity markets are increasingly becoming intertwined with the advance of the internal market. This implies that national fuel mix policies increasingly have cross-national…
Scientific Opinion on the science behind the guidance for scenario selection and scenario parameterisation for predicting environmental concentrations of plant protection products in soil
The EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and its Residues (PPR Panel) developed a revised methodology for the assessment of exposure of soil organisms to pesticides. In contrast to previous…
Assessing the impacts of livestock production on biodiversity in rangeland ecosystems
GLOBIO and IMAGE were used to assess the impact of global change in food demand and livestock production on future rangeland biodiversity. The study shows that policies fostering agricultural…
Environmental policy evaluation: experiences in the Netherlands
Over time, the selection of environmental indicators that policymakers consider to be relevant is subject to change. The indicators preferred by policymakers are influenced by the prevailing framing…
Model-based scenarios for rural electrification in developing countries
Promoting access to modern energy forms in developing countries to replace traditional fuels is high on the political agenda. This paper describes the development and application of a global model for…
Collapse and reorganization of a food web of Mwanza Gulf, Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria in East Africa is the world's second largest freshwater system. Over the past century the ecosystem has undergone drastic changes. Some 30 years after the introduction of Nile perch (…
Nature policy as a controversy: The Changing political and societal context and the Nature Outlook
Since the cabinet Rutte got into office, the politization of nature policy in the Netherlands has become manifest. In this article a sketch of the situation is presented and some possible explanations…
The Nature Outlook and the role of PBL in policy processes
The Nature Outlook is one of the regular products of PBL Netherlands Environmental Agency. For the present Outlook there has been a lot of interaction between researchers and policy-makers and…
Environmentally harmful subsidies are subsidies or tax exemptions that have an unintended negative effect on nature and the environment. If the Netherlands were to focus on abolishing these…
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