Property price effects of green interventions in cities
Although green interventions, like nature-based solutions, contribute to more sustainable urban environments and provide ecosystem services to urban populations, some impacts are not well understood…
Report on the workshop 'New Narratives for Nature: operationalizing the IPBES Nature Futures Scenarios'
In February 2020, the IPBES Task Force and Technical Support Unit on Scenarios and Models, which is hosted by PBL, organized the workshop ‘New Narratives for Nature: operationalizing the IPBES Nature…
Nature and biodiversity are being lost worldwide, and the capacity of ecosystems to provide services to people is deteriorating. Most of the targets for 2020 of the UN Convention on Biological…
Indebted to nature. Exploring biodiversity risks for the Dutch financial sector
Biodiversity loss has a certain impact on the economy and, therefore, also on the financial sector. This motivated DNB, the Dutch central bank, and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency to…
Integrated landscape management and natural capital accounting: working together for sustainable development
The WAVES partnership supports several countries with the development of Natural Capital Accounts (NCAs). At the request of the WAVES partnership, PBL has evaluated how NCAs can inform Integrated…
What users of global risk-related indicators should know
The use of composite indicators has grown vastly over the past three decades. These indicators, which combine different data sources, can help to understand risks over time and compare between…
The assessment of land degradation and restoration by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that land degradation across the globe is a wide and…
Analysing group contract design using a threshold public goods experiment
This paper presents the results of a threshold public goods game experiment with heterogeneous players. The experiment is designed in close collaboration with the Dutch association of agri…
Assessment of biodiversity measurement approaches for business and financial institutions
Measurement of biodiversity performance by businesses and financial institutions is rapidly gaining attention. In parallel, there is a growing demand for more transparency in business performance with…
Increasing variety in response to decreasing biodiversity
Inaugural lecture by Rob Alkemade upon taking up the position of Special Professor of Global Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Modelling at Wageningen University & Research on 12 September 2019.
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