MNP air quality assessments reap international praise
Recent evaluation by the international audit committee of the models used by MNP (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) to assess air quality in the Netherlands and analyse policy effects has…
Flexibility in the European Water Framework Directive - A quick scan. Summary
Implementing the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is forcing important decisions at the interface of ecology and economics. For example, how ambitious are the Dutch water policy targets? What…
Focus on cluttering - Mapping disturbing elements in the Dutch landscape
The Dutch National Spatial Strategy (Nota Ruimte) has identified cluttering as a problem for the Dutch landscape. Cluttering seems to be most prominent in the Kop of Noord-Holland (top of the province…
Mapping Ground Water Vulnerability to Pesticide Leaching
To monitor the progress of the EU Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) has developed a simple pesticide leaching indicator…
Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from animal manure management, 1990-2003
Since 2005 the Netherlands has used a new country-specific method to calculate the methane and nitrous oxide emissions from animal manure management. The calculated methane and nitrous oxide emissions…
Participatory approaches for a transition in agriculture: the case of The Netherlands
Chapter in book 'Agriculture and Climate beyond 2015'. It describes some examples of processes and methods to support transition processes. A description of the first version of an evaluation method…
A method for the analysis of assumptions in assessments: Exploring the value-ladenness of two indicators in the Fifth Dutch Environmental Outlook
When analysts do quantitative scientific assessments of complex policy problems, they have to make many assumptions in the chain of calculations that lead to the end results. These assumptions…
European Critical Loads and Dynamic Modelling - CCE Status Report 2005
The analysis of air pollution impacts on environment and health becomes ever more important for the support of air pollution policies also because the health risk op particulate matter has recently…
There is a growing need for comparative indicators to measure Member State’s environmental performance. To fulfill this need, MNP has developed the European Benchmark Indicators (EBI) to draw…
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