De Balans van de Leefomgeving geeft parlement, kabinet en samenleving een feitelijk onderbouwd inzicht in de huidige kwaliteit van de fysieke leefomgeving. De Balans is de tweejaarlijkse peilstok van het PBL die aangeeft in hoeverre de door de politiek zelf ten doel gestelde leefomgevingskwaliteit tijdig wordt bereikt. De Balans van de Leefomgeving 2014 heeft als motto meegekregen: de toekomst is nú.

Quantifying relationships between governance, agriculture, and nature: empirical-statistical- and pattern-oriented modeling

Abstract

Policymakers and land managers around the world are struggling to use our finite land and resource base to increase agricultural production, ensure resilient ecosystems and improve livelihoods. Many are turning to integrated landscape management (ILM) as a framework for inter-sectoral planning and investments to reduce potential trade-offs and realize inherent synergies.

The contemporary concern about anthropogenic release of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the

environment and the contribution of livestock to this phenomenon have sparked animal

scientists’ interest in predicting methane (CH4) emissions by ruminants. Focusing on milk

production, we address six basic nutrition models or feeding standards (mostly empirical

systems) and five complex nutrition models (mostly mechanistic systems), describe their key

characteristics, and highlight their similarities and differences. Four models were selected to

In this issue: have capital markets
aided growth in China and India? Land and poverty: the
importance of transparency; coping with $100 oil; how fit
are feed-in tariff policies? Political incentives to
underinvest in pro-poor policies; mass media and public
policy for agriculture; and managing public debt in small states.

This report is the most recent in a
series aimed at monitoring economic developments in Ghana
and has two sections. The first section summarizes the
recent macroeconomic developments in the country while the
second section presents the main findings on poverty and
employment published recently by the Ghana statistical
service. Ghana s overall macroeconomic conditions have
deteriorated further in 2014 with large twin-deficits

The Indonesia Economic Quarterly (IEQ)
has two main objectives. First, it reports on the key
developments over the past three months in Indonesia's
economy, and places these in a longer term and global
context. Based on these developments, and on policy changes
over the period, the IEQ regularly updates the outlook for
Indonesia's economy and social welfare. Second, the
IEQ provides a more in-depth examination of selected