The Netherlands' National Environmental Policy Plan (NEPP)

Moving From National to International Environmental Policy

The evolution of a national research plan for computers in education in The Netherlands

This paper describes the evolution of a national research plan for computers and education in The Netherlands. This approach was initiated in 1983 and includes two phases: one from 1984 until 1988 and one from 1989 until 1992. The paper describes the research plans for the second phase, based upon the experiences of the first, and draws some general conclusions about the development of national...

Sustainable Community Planning: Lessons from the Netherlands

In 1990, the Dutch Government adopted a national plan to develop integrated and comprehensive policies that would respond on a national, regional, and local level to the need for improved environmental quality for the welfare of current and future generations. The program, called the National Environmental Policy Plan (NEPP), represented a bold effort to develop cooperation and shared responsib...

Environmental Consciousness in the Netherlands

The impact of national vaccination policy changes on influenza incidence in the Netherlands

BACKGROUND We assessed the impact of two major modifications of the Dutch National Influenza Prevention Programme--the introduction in 1997 of free-of-charge vaccination to persons aged ≥65 years and to high-risk groups (previously only advised, and not free of charge), and the lowering of the eligible age to 60 years in 2008--on the estimated incidence of influenza infection leading to influen...