Andre van Amstel is Assistant Professor in the Deptartment of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He previously taught physical geography in Amsterdam. He worked at the Institute of Public Health and the Environment from 1991 to 1996 where he was responsible for the national greenhouse gas emissions inventories for the National Communication on Climate Policies from the Netherlands to the Climate Convention. In 2006 he was one of the coordinating lead authors for the volume on agriculture, forestry and land use of the IPCC Guidelines for national greenhouse gas in...