Modeling the Effects of Future Growing Demand for Charcoal in the Tropics
Global demand for charcoal is increasing mainly due to urban population in developing countries. More than half the global population now lives in cities, and urban-dwellers are restricted to charcoal…
Ondanks het groeiende aantal dodelijke ongevallen onder oudere e-bikers, leidt fietsen toch tot een langer en gezond leven. In het kader van het internationale congres Velo-city 2017 zet onderzoeker…
Abandonment of natural gas production and investment in carbon storage
Long-term mitigation scenarios rely heavily on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) for achieving ambitious climate change targets. The amount of CO 2 storage in these scenarios depends on the CO 2 price…
Throughout the world, adaptation to climate change is one of the major challenges. In the Netherlands, under the Delta Programme, adaptation strategies have been developed for flood protection…
Overbenutting van de plaatsingsruimte van dierlijke mest in het zuidelijk veehouderijgebied
Op 30 maart 2017 publiceerde het PBL het Syntheserapport van de Evaluatie Meststoffenwet. Daarin werd de notitie over overbenutting van de plaatsingsruimte van dierlijke mest in het zuidelijk…
Using behavioral insights to make firms more energy efficient: A field experiment on the effects of improved communication
The Dutch government provides annual, detailed, energy-efficiency feedback to individual companies that have signed a voluntary agreement to increase their energy efficiency. However, only about 14%…
To examine which considerations play a role when individuals make decisions to purchase sustainable product varieties or not, we have conducted a large scale field experiment with more than 600…
In City Deals maken steden, het Rijk, bedrijven en maatschappelijke organisaties concrete samenwerkingsafspraken om innovatieve oplossingen te zoeken voor complexe vraagstukken die worden geadresseerd…
Mainstreaming biodiversity in economic sectors: An analytical framework.
The concept of mainstreaming was originally developed for situations where governments or intergovernmental organizations with explicit public mandates took the lead. Nowadays it is increasingly…
Increasing demand for solution-oriented environmental assessments brings significant opportunities and challenges at the science-policy interface. Solutions-oriented assessments should enable…
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