Do new and uncertain risks threaten human health? Because science is unable to sufficiently answer this question, risk and safety policies confront limits, exemplified by climate change and adaptation…
Plan-led planning systems in development-led practices
Planning laws are usually made with good intentions, but do not always lead to good results, at least not when measured against their own goals. Since July 2008 the Netherlands has had a new planning…
Strong decrease in labour force expected for large parts of Europe
Under unfavourable demographic and economic circumstances, the European labour force is expected to decrease by 20% up to 2050. This causes an increase in pressure on the working population to provide…
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…
Anthropogenic and natural constituents in particulate matter in the Netherlands
To develop mitigation strategies for reducing concentrations of both PM 2.5 and PM 10, the origin of particulate matter (PM) needs to be established. An intensive, one-year measurement campaign from…
The nitrogen load on Dutch Natura 2000 areas; local effects and strategies
To assess nitrogen levels on a local scale, an experimental version of the OPS model was combined with monitoring measurements from Natura 2000 areas. In a pilot study, expected emission trends were…
The implications of climate policy for the impacts of climate change on global water resources
This paper assesses the implications of climate policy for exposure to water resources stresses. It compares a Reference scenario which leads to an increase in global mean temperature of 4 °C by the…
Life events and the gap between intention to move and actual mobility
Life events are frequently mentioned as a reason why people do not behave according to their mobility intentions. However, there is little empirical evidence concerning the role of life events in the…
Climate change under aggressive mitigation: the ENSEMBLES multi-model experiment
This paper present results from multiple comprehensive models used to simulate an aggressive mitigation scenario based on detailed results of an Integrated Assessment Model. The experiment employs ten…
Indirect land use change emissions related to EU biofuel consumption
Biofuels have recently been promoted in policies as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector. However, biofuel production in itself also induces emissions directly as well as…
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