The Implications of Brexit for UK and EU Regional Competitiveness
At the end of 2020, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union (Brexit). This will have certain major and different impacts on the competitive position of Dutch provinces and economic sectors…
Building obsolescence in the evolving city. Reframing property vacancy and abandonment in the light of urban dynamics and complexity
This conceptual article analyses how both policymakers and academics often discuss the state of buildings. Property vacancy and abandonment are generally approached statically, in an undifferentiated…
Contextualizing local landscape initiatives in global change: A scenario study for the High Forest Zone, Ghana
Integrated landscape management (ILM) is increasingly considered as an approach to reconcile multiple, often conflicting, demands on a landscape scale. This research compared two sustainability…
Food is a basic necessity of life. Our food production does have a downside for the physical environment, such as biodiversity loss and climate change. By putting consumers and supply chains at the…
Projected material requirements for the global electricity infrastructure – generation, transmission and storage
We analyse how the global material stocks and flows related to the electricity sector may develop towards 2050. We focus on three electricity sub-systems, being generation, transmission and storage…
Implications of climate change mitigation strategies on international bioenergy trade
Most climate change mitigation scenarios rely on increased use of bioenergy to decarbonize the energy system. Here we use results from the 33rd Energy Modeling Forum study (EMF-33) to investigate…
A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks.
Global human-induced emissions of nitrous oxide, which are dominated by nitrogen additions to croplands, increased by 30% over the past four decades to 7.3 (4.2-11.4) teragrams of nitrogen per year…
Decarbonisation options for the Dutch chlor-alkali industry
This report on decarbonisation options for the Dutch chlor-alkali industry is part of the MIDDEN project (Manufacturing Industry Decarbonisation Data Exchange Network) initiated by PBL and TNO. The…
Developing multi-scale and integrative nature-people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework
Nature is under pressure. Given current development trajectories, without substantial transformations, it is unlikely that we will achieve the prosperous future imagined in global sustainability…
Overview of recently adopted mitigation policies and climate-relevant policy responses to COVID-19
This report presents an overview of recently adopted climate policies, climate-relevant responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and a state of play of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and Long…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
