Sustainability Economic and sustainable development the last twenty years become established concepts. For all sorts of activities and products are sustainable variants arise. This ranges from the purchase of eco-food, sustainable wood (FSC) and fair-trade coffee with Max Havelaar label, to sustainable construction and odd jobs, and sustainable investment and sustainable banking to renewable energy. These days even a sustainable national income, measured and sustainable enterprise, complete with sustainability reports, is booming.
Netherlands uses proportionately more resources from low-income countries in Africa, South Asia and Latin America and thus has a large ecological footprint. The share of natural resources input per person among the highest in Europe. After importing a finished product that is also largely re-exported to other European countries. On the one hand with the Netherlands imports to economic development in the countries from which imported, the other contributes to the import of natural loss and climate change is promoted by.
There are also negative effects on local air quality, water and soil. The CO2 emissions resulting from consumption of Dutch households to global standards high. Despite the high consumption level, a Dutchman space roughly equal to the world average. This is mainly because both inside and outside the Netherlands using farmland with high productivity. The high population density, the total space required for the consumption of Dutch to produce, still about three times the land area of the Netherlands. To the global problems of land, raw materials and energy to diminish in theory three possibilities:
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