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Can the use of alternative resources e.g. wind, sun ray, sea waves as energy, minimize global warming?

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of formulating integrated nitrogen policies in national and international and what may be the environmental, economic and social effects of such policies?

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Is it useful for current policy making in Europe to explore non-binding targets for reduction of emissions to the atmosphere for the year 2050, and if yes are appropriate tools available?

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How to ensure transparency and understandability of environmental models to assist international negotiations on environmental policy while increasing the model complexity by integrating air pollution, global warming and sustainable development?

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How can we use environment and sustainability as factors for all policy areas in planning, reporting, controling and accounting for government, companies and organisations?

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How can we avoid the global warming and climate change if the emission for gases of industry continue to contribute the pollution? The development country always blamed for the global warming factors, for example: Indonesia with the illegal logging.

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How can we influence human behaviour towards a more sustainable attitude?
Besides technical development and transitions (change in processes) human behaviour (individual & groupwise) is a main tool to reach a sustainable world: people make a difference!

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“How can the government effectively use knowledge development regarding risk perceptions? What (new) knowledge is needed? Are what if scenarios in the area of external security useful in this approach?”

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“Perception of risk is changing. What bothers a civilian, what keeps him/her up at night? Is it useful to regularly test existing rules and policies?”

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“Are there limitations in the national environmental policies against creating effective integral solutions on an area scale, focused on a sustainable (local) environment?”

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“How can the government use functions of soil and water services as integral area development and in themes regarding storage and transport in the soil. What is the position or interest of soil functions? What new knowledge is required?”

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“How can you involve long term effects and consequences for later generations in the choice between ecosystem services and the involved trade off? ”

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“Will the idea of ecosystem thinking lead to new insights into environmental problems and possible policy solutions? Has the use of ecosystem services lead to solutions to environmental problems, and what can the government learn from this?”

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“ What is a socially accepted translation of the goals of the biodiversity policy? Reasoning from environmental quality, how can the government find effective goals for biodiversity?”

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“What is the role of the government in the energy debate? What visions does the government develop to regulate possible environmental effects of a diversification of the energy market?”

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“How does Dutch help in developing countries effect global climate change? What support measures prevent climate change?”

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Which set of institutional arrangements (regulations and public organizations) would be effective and efficacy to gear markets and societies toward environmental sustainability and ecological conservation?

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