Government interventions in sustainable supply chain governance: Experience in Dutchfront-running cases
Numerous multi-actor governance systems have recently emerged, ensuring sustainability of international traded products. Business and civil society actors play a dominant role in initiating and…
Report workshop 'Moving forward on the EU’s Resource Efficiency initiative – a global perspective'
This workshop, held in a round-table format, brought together around two dozen senior experts. Immediately following the UN’s Rio+20 conference, it sought to establish the most recent world view on…
Spatial concentration of industries and new firm exits: does this relationship differ between exits by failure and by M&As?
This study shows that the effect of the spatial concentration of industries on the post-entry hazards of new firms differs between types of exit and industry. New firms located in regions with a…
Assessment of the environmental impacts and health benefits of a nitrogen emission control area in the North Sea
Two studies have analysed the costs and benefits of creating a nitrogen emission control area in the North Sea and the English Channel. Such a control area requires new ships to emit 75 percent less…
'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…
A synthesis of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion
This synthesis discusses the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from fossil-fuel combustion and cement production. While much is known about these emissions, there is still much that is unknown about…
Including CO2 implications of land occupation in LCAs-method and example for livestock products
Until recently, life cycle assessments (LCAs) have only addressed the direct greenhouse gas emissions along a process chain, but ignored the CO 2 emissions of landuse. However, for agricultural…
Once an outsider, always an outsider? The accessibility of the Dutch rural housing market among locals and non-locals
Are intended movers with a preference for rural living able to move to their preferred rural location? One of the most pressing questions in the rural gentrification literature is whether rural…
This report analyses how combinations of technological measures and changes in consumption patterns could contribute to achieving a set of sustainability objectives, taking into account the…
The representation of landscapes in global scale assessments of environmental change
Landscape ecology has provided valuable insights in the relations between spatial structure and the functioning of landscapes. However, in most global scale environmental assessments the…
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