Publications

Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere is important to better understand the global...

For many years spatial and transport planning has been a process of guiding and directing growth. Population, housing stock, jobs and kilometres travelled more or less continuously increased for...

The regional population and household projections for 2011 to 2040 presents future developments in the population and number of households per municipality in the Netherlands. This article...

After a 1 % decline in 2009, global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions increased by more than 5 % in 2010, which is unprecedented in the last two decades. The industrialised countries that ratified...

Quality of life is high in the Netherlands, also compared to other European countries, but it seems impossible to retain this level of prosperity, in the long run. More innovation, better education...

Place-based smart specialisation strategies are one of the prerequisites to access Structural Funds as of 2014. However, policy research analysing regional smart specialisation strategies has been...

Currently, place-based development policies are proposed for future cohesion policy and have taken the shape of smart specialisation strategies. These strategies are one of the prerequisites to...

Based on their recent studies on the relation between environment and human development, the PBL has contributed to the World Bank’s Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving...

Scientific assessments have become an important tool to support decision-making. Such assessments are formal efforts to assemble selected knowledge with a view toward making it publicly available...

Each year, the world is startled by floods occurring somewhere on the planet. Of all natural disasters floods affect the most people, in one way or another. Floods cause major damage. Well-known...