Een maatschappelijke kosten/baten analyse (KBA) kan ook bij complexe, wereldwijde "wicked" milieuproblemen met grote kennisleemten en onzekerheden van nut zijn. Wel verliest de KBA dan iets van de gebruikelijke functie als rekenmethode. Naarmate de problematiek complexer is en de onzekerheden...

The purpose of this paper is to offer a contribution to the study of integrated assessment procedures for evaluating the effectiveness of agri-environmental policy strategies. While in the past the studies in this context have typically concentrated on the contents of methods in isolation, there...

A sustainable development has become an important policy aim in many countries. This concept is recently fine-tuned towards clearly demarcated economic sectors, such as the transport sector. This article is about sustainable transport or mobility. A review is presented of various aspects that...

The aim of this paper is to review the insights on the desirability and possibilities for using economic policy instruments to reach sustainable use of water. Special attention will be paid to the scope for price instruments and privatisation and liberalisation of the sector as these feature...

Environmental issues have received a prominent place in transport policies of most European countries. The coordination of such policies however, is fraught with many difficulties. The increasing freight flows after the European integration are a source of concern, but have not yet led to...

Soil cleaning-up operations have become a priority in most western countries. In the Netherlands, in particular, a systematic effort to restore the environmental quality of polluted sites has started in the early eighties. The cornerstone of the Dutch legislation is that of restoring soil...

Water is the sector most comprehensively covered in European Union's environmental policy. An initial wave of directives accounting for public health protection and for harmonisation of environmental rules in the common market was followed by a call for a policy reform to address more properly...

Sustainable development has become a globally accepted policy objective. It is however, increasingly recognized that the implementation of sustainability strategies has to take place at a decentralized level. This has also provoked the idea of urban sustainability. The notion of sustainable city...