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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.

Het Landelijk Grondwatermodel (LGM) en een een-dimensionaal model van de hydrologie van de onverzadigde zone (SWAP) zijn gekoppeld. Met dit gecombineerde model kunnen de waterstromen in het bodem- en…

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…

Het Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau en het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu willen met de uitgave 'Fijn stof nader bekeken' de feiten over fijn stof in samenhang presenteren. De uitgave laat…

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…

Het Groene Hart stond lange tijd gelijk aan verstedelijkingsdiscussies. De laatste jaren is duidelijk geworden dat het water minstens zo grote ruimtelijke gevolgen zal hebben. Ruimte is nodig om de…