RRI Green Planning Archives: The Netherlands

Where there’s a will there’s a world: Working on sustainability. Summary of the Fourth National Environmental Policy Plan (October 2001)
A 36-page English summary of the Dutch NEPP4.
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Policy Tour to the Netherlands September 2000, “Seeing is Believing”
This document presents the proceedings of the Resource Renewal Institute’s September 2000 policy tour to the Netherlands, which was attended by eleven Mexican government, business, and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders. Contained within are highlights from the sessions held throughout the week.
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Update on National Environmental Policy Plan 4 (NEPP 4), January 2000
A snapshot of the development of NEPP4

Netherlands Policy Tour 1999: Summary Report
This document presents a summary of the proceedings of the Resource Renewal Institute’s (RRI’s) September 1999 policy tour to the Netherlands, which was attended by twenty-two California government, business and non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders. Contained within are highlights from the sessions held throughout the week.
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Overview of the Dutch National Environmental Policy Plan (current to 1999)
A description of the development of the NEPP, its content, and the subsequent NEPP2 and NEPP3 iterations

“Managing Places and Spaces for Living in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Netherlands on Becoming Sustainable”
A speech by Margaretha de Boer, Minister, Ministry for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. June 4, 1998

Strategic Cooperation: The Role of NGOs in the Netherlands’ National Environmental Policy Plan (1998)
A report by Dagmar Timmer on Dutch NGOs.

Environmental Policy Review (current to 1995)
A discussion of the Netherland’s environmental history, guiding principles, policy development, policy implementation, special areas of concern.

• Environmental History is a brief chronology of important environmental developments in a country.
• Guiding Principles summarizes key legal, economic, and philosophical principles influencing environmental policies.
• Policy Development summarizes the development process and the roles played by government, industry, and citizens.
• Policy Implementation summarizes legislative, regulatory, fiscal, and other measures used to achieve policy goals.
• Special Areas of Concern profiles a country's major environmental problems and policy emphases regarding pollution control and natural resource management.
• Environmental Expenditures discusses public and private financial commitments to environmental protection and the costs of achieving future goals.
• International Context looks at the global conditions affecting a country's environment and its cooperation on environmental issues with neighboring states and the world community.

A Viable Framework for Stewardship (World Business Academy Perspectives Vol 9. No. 3. 1995)
A discussion of the Netherlands’ and New Zealand’s solution to regulatory modernization.

Covenant as an instrument of environmental policy in the Netherlands, 1994
An official memorandum to the OECD concerning the Covenant’s development, its policies and a listing of environmental covenants within the industry.

Environmental Cooperation Between Government and Industry in the Netherlands (1993)
A speech by J.J. de Graeff, Director of the Environment and Spatial Planning Office of VNO and NCW, for the Resource Renewal Institute, California.

National Environmental Policy Plan (1993)
A Summary of the extensive Dutch National Environmental Policy Plan by Patricia Scruggs.

National Environmental Policy Plan 2 (1993)
A final report on an evaluation of the Netherland’s Industry as reported by the companies of KPMG and IVA.

National Planning for Sustainable Development (1993)
A six-page summary of the Netherlands’s first National Environmental Policy Plan prepared by the Netherlands’s Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and the Environment (VROM).

Pioneering a Sustainable Society in an Industrial Land (1993)
A speech by Dr. Paul de Jongh about lessons to be learned from the Netherlands’s green plan experience.