Publications

In this paper, two long-term visions of the Dutch future energy system are composed, analysed and evaluated. Both visions were set up to meet the requirement to reduce the GHG emissions with 80% in…

Reductions in river discharge (water availability) like those from climate change or increased water withdrawal, reduce freshwater biodiversity. We combined two scenarios from the Intergovernmental…

The choice of a temperature target in the context of Article 2 of the UN Climate Convention requires scientific information on the consequences and risks of a variety of options to achieve this target…

The groundwater flow model for the Netherlands (LGM), and a one-dimensional model of soil water flow (SWAP) were coupled.

Changes in land use are foreseen on a great scale in the Netherlands. Nonetheless, assessment of soil quality hardly plays a role in spatial planning and consequent land use. Therefore, we analyzed…

The Earth's surface has changed considerably over the past centuries. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1700s, humans from the "Old World" started to colonize the "New World"…

The agricultural sector in the Netherlands has lost much of its importance over the last 50 years in terms of the number of people involved and its relative contribution to the economy – even though…

From 2010 on, new diesel cars sold in the European Union will probably have to be equipped with particulate traps to be able to meet the Euro-5 emission standards. In order to possibly diminish the…

EURURALIS is developed for policy makers dealing with the future of agriculture and other land use in the enlarged Europe of 25 member states. Expecting that major developments affect the rural areas…

This paper reports the extent to which the effects of such life-course experiences as partnership formation, the transition to parenthood, divorce and unemployment on housing quality persist over the…