The price of protein: Review of land use and carbon footprints from Life cycle assessments of animal food products and their substitutes
Sources of protein in our diet, such as meat, dairy products and seafood can have significant environmental impacts. There are however very large differences between products, both in land requirement…
'The world continues to speed down an unsustainable path despite over 500 internationally agreed goals and objectives to support the sustainable management of the environment and improve human…
Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis in MRIO Modelling; Some Empirical Results with regard to the Dutch Carbon Footprint
In a multi-region input-output (MRIO) model, national input-output tables, representing financial transactions between economic sectors within a country, and trade flow tables, showing the value of…
Scarcity in a Sea of Plenty? Global Resource Scarcities and Policies in the European Union and the Netherlands
Current high prices of food, oil and many other resources are indications of increasing scarcity. This scarcity, however, has little to do with stock depletion. Badly functioning markets and wrong…
Charted Choices 2011-2015 - Effects of nine election platforms on the economy and the environment
At the request of nine political parties, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency have mapped out the effects of the respective election…
Adapting EU governance for a more sustainable future
This paper identifies a number of internal and external governance issues influencing the EU's capacity to bring itself and the rest of the world on a more sustainable path. By using different…
The world is too small to simultaneously produce enough food (including meat) for everyone and to deliver biofuels on a large enough scale to slow down climate change and maintain biodiversity. The…
Sustainable production and consumption, an assessment for the Netherlands
Poverty, climate change and loss of biodiversity are among the key issues in relation to global sustainable development. The Netherlands is tightly embedded in a global network of economic relations…
PPP Versus Mer: Searching for Answers in a Multi-Dimensional Debate
Consistent with most of the existing literature, the economic growth in most of the SRES (Special Report on Emission) scenarios and their regions were reported in US dollars based on conversions using…
Environmental load from Dutch private consumption - How much damage takes place abroad?
This article describes a method for determining the environmental load of Dutch private consumption. The method generates detailed information about consumption-related environmental impacts.
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