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Regulating services

These are the benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes, including air quality regulation, climate regulation, water regulation, erosion regulation, water purification and waste...

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Provisioning services

Provisioning ecosystem services are the products obtained from ecosystems, including food, fiber, fuel, genetic resources, natural medicines, pharmaceuticals and fresh water.

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Carbon account

The carbon account records stocks and flows of carbon in and between various reservoirs: biosphere (stocks in vegetation, water etc.), atmosphere (as CO2,CH4 etc.), geosphere (oil, coal etc.) and the...

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Natural Capital

Humans and the economy are highly dependent on the natural environment and the corresponding provision of products and services.

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Ecosystem types

The entire area of the Netherlands is categorised into a number of ecosystem types.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms and the ecosystems of which they are part.

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Population growth halved in 2004

The Netherlands had a population of 16.3 million on 1 January 2005. In 2004 the population increased by just 34 thousand. In 2003 the increase was twice as high. Such a low growth rate has not been...

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Ecosystem Unit map

The ecosystem unit map delineates ecosystem units in the Netherlands

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More people find the environment highly polluted

In 2017, over half of the adult population in the Netherlands indicated that air, soil and water are severely polluted. Three-quarters believe that the natural environment has been seriously damaged....

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More bankruptcies again

Over 9 300 bankruptcies were pronounced in 2004. This is 7 percent more than in 2003. The increase occurred mainly among natural persons (private individuals with or without single-owner company)....

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Fewer individual, more business bankruptcies in 2008

The number of bankruptcies declined by over 14 percent in 2008 relative to the previous year. The number of personal and one-person business bankruptcies declined considerably, but the amount of...

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Record number of bankruptcies in 2012

An unprecedented total of 11,235 businesses and natural persons were declared bankrupt last year, an increase by 18 percent relative to 2011.

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Fewer individual insolvencies and company liquidations in 2007

The number of business failures declined further in 2007 to just under 8 thousand, a decrease by 13 percent relative to 2006.

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More than one tenth of the Netherlands covered by woods

More than 10 percent of the Dutch land area (3,447 km²) is occupied by woods. This corresponds to the total land area of the province of Friesland.

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Considerably fewer bankruptcies

In 2006, the number of bankruptcies declined for the first time since 2000. Last year 9,200 bankruptcies were filed, a decrease by 9 percent on 2005.

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Green growth in the Netherlands 2015

In the publication Green growth in the Netherlands 2015 ,Statistics Netherlands analyses and describes the state of the “green” economy in the Netherlands, based on 36 indicators, divided...

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