Beleid en praktijk – betaalbaar wonen in Nederland
De afgelopen jaren is de betaalbaarheid van het wonen sterk onder druk komen staan, vooral bij huishoudens met een lager inkomen. Dit artikel beschrijft de oorzaken en meest recente beleidsmaatregelen…
De Nederlandse bevolking vergrijst de komende decennia in een rap tempo. Vooral de groep ‘oude ouderen’, de 75-plussers, groeit sterk. Deze ouderen wonen veelal zelfstandig, maar hebben daarbij wel…
Looking under the hood: A comparison of techno-economic assumptions across national and global integrated assessment models
Integrated assessment models are extensively used in the analysis of climate change mitigation and are informing national decision makers as well as contribute to international scientific assessments…
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” – is important to…
Integrated assessment of biomass supply and demand in climate change mitigation scenarios
Biomass is often seen as a key component of future energy systems as it can be used for heat and electricity production, as a transport fuel, and a feedstock for chemicals. Furthermore, it can be used…
Oefenen met de toekomst: ongemakkelijk én inspirerend
Om hun werk zo goed mogelijk te doen proberen planologen, stedenbouwkundigen en verkeerskundigen zich een beeld te vormen wat de toekomst gaat brengen. En die toekomst is met een grote onzekerheid…
When the Background Matters: Using Scenarios from Integrated Assessment Models in Prospective Life Cycle Assessment
Prospective life cycle assessment (LCA) needs to deal with the large epistemological uncertainty about the future to support more robust future environmental impact assessments of technologies. This…
A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios
To support the assessments of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the IPBES Expert Group on Scenarios and Models is carrying out an…
Gridded emissions of air pollutants for the period 1970–2012 within EDGAR v4.3.2
The new version of the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v4.3.2) compiles gaseous and particulate air pollutant emissions, making use of the same anthropogenic sectors, time…
Scientific Opinion about the Guidance of the Chemical Regulation Directorate (UK) on how aged sorption studies for pesticides should be conducted, analysed and used in regulatory assessments
Aged sorption is the tendency of pesticides to adsorp more strongly with increasing time. As a results, it reduces the leaching of pesticides into groundwater. This opinion reviewes how aged sorption…
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