Towards an urban preview: Modelling future urban growth with 2UP
Future projections of global population distribution and urbanization become increasingly important in scenario-based assessments of climate related exposure and vulnerability. The 2UP model is…
Land-use emissions play a critical role in land-based mitigation for Paris climate targets
Scenarios that limit global warming to below 2 °C by 2100 assume significant land-use change to support large-scale carbon dioxide (CO 2) removal from the atmosphere by afforestation/reforestation…
In the past decades, the relationship between water issues and conflict risks received much attention, both in the literature and the media. However, reports and publications warning about these…
Modelling the Water-Energy-Food-Land-Climate Nexus: The Nexus Tree Approach
The Water-Land-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus approach considers these five sectors as inextricably linked, forming a complex system of interrelations. A theoretical framework is presented to…
Integrating Functions for a Sustainable Urban System: A Review of Multifunctional Land Use and Circular Urban Metabolism
Cities pose environmental challenges but also offer possibilities to close material and energy loops and connect multiple societal and ecologic services. Two important new research directions that…
Deliverable D2.2 Nexus-relevant policies at national and regional scale
Implementation of the UNFCCC Paris agreement on climate change gets more attention from European national governments than the multi-sectoral Sustainable Development Goals. This unilateral focus may…
Most policies consist of mixes, new interventions being implemented on top of already existing policies. Whether this is a good idea or not is often unclear: evaluating policy mixes is difficult, and…
Potentieel en kosten klimaatneutrale gebouwde omgeving in de gemeente Utrecht
Het PBL heeft een verkenning uitgevoerd naar de warmte- en koudevoorziening van de gebouwde omgeving in de gemeente Utrecht die zo snel mogelijk klimaatneutraal wil worden. Zowel het potentieel van…
Implications of eutrophication for biogeochemical processes in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China
Three Gorges Reservoir, the largest man-made lake in the Changjiang River traps a small fraction of the nitrogen (N) and dissolved silicate (DSi) inflows, and a larger fraction of P. This leads to…
Towards a safe operating space for the Netherlands
This policy brief discusses normative choices in setting national policy targets that are in line with SDG ambitions related to global environmental challenges. Based on scientific insights into…
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