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A Sustainable Outlook on the Future of The Netherlands

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Land-Use Modelling in Planning Practice

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In 2005, the Dutch Upper House asked the Dutch Government to prepare a highly integrated, long-term investment strategy in spatial planning that should pay more attention to the effects of climate change and make provisions for the further development of the Randstad conurbation. In response to this request, in 2007 PBL carried out the Second Sustainability Outlook. This study comprised two parts, each looking at sustainability from a different perspective:

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Kuiper, R., Kuijpers-Linde, M., Bouwman, A. (2011). A Sustainable Outlook on the Future of The Netherlands. In: Koomen, E., Borsboom-van Beurden, J. (eds) Land-Use Modelling in Planning Practice. GeoJournal Library, vol 101. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1822-7_4

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