De aanpak van houtstook naar Duits voorbeeld is het meest effectief voor verbetering van de luchtkwaliteit tot 2030. Voor de korte termijn blijft de aanpak van oude diesels zonder roetfilter relevant…
Afforestation for climate change mitigation: Potentials, risks and trade‐offs
Afforestation is considered a cost‐effective and readily available climate change mitigation option. In recent studies afforestation is presented as a major solution to limit climate change. However…
Integrated Solutions for the Water-Energy-Land Nexus: Are Global Models Rising to the Challenge?
Increasing human demands for water, energy, food and materials, are expected to accentuate resource supply challenges over the coming decades. Experience suggests that long-term strategies for a…
Natuurbescherming in Nederland; tijd voor een nieuwe praktijk?
Er zijn fundamentele transities in onze economie en samenleving nodig om de teloorgang van natuur te stoppen, constateerde het IPBES begin 2019. De huidige aanpak van het natuurbeleid richt zich…
Aquaculture production is a large, spatially concentrated source of nutrients in Chinese freshwater and coastal seas
This article presents a spatially explicit inventory of nutrient emissions from aquaculture to waterbodies for 2006 and 2017. Aquaculture production and nutrient excretion are now comparable to that…
The Paris Agreement introduced an ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Here we combine a review of modelled pathways and literature on mitigation strategies, and…
Modeling forest plantations for carbon uptake with the LPJmL dynamic global vegetation model
We present an extension of the dynamic global vegetation model, Lund–Potsdam–Jena Managed Land (LPJmL), to simulate planted forests intended for carbon (C) sequestration. We implemented three…
PBL/CBS Regionale bevolkings- en huishoudensprognose 2019–2050: Woningbouwveronderstellingen
In september 2019 is voor de zevende keer de PBL/CBS Regionale bevolkings- en huishoudensprognose uitgebracht. In dit artikel wordt ingegaan op de woningbouwveronderstellingen van deze prognose (de…
Modelling global material stocks and flows for residential and service sector buildings towards 2050
Residential buildings and service sector buildings have an important contribution to climate change, directly via energy use in these buildings and indirectly through construction activities and the…
Reconciling global sustainability targets and local action for food production and climate change mitigation
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) imply country-led implementation. Yet, their achievement depends on sustainability targets compatible across different sectors and scales. Our study examines…
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