Chapter 40: Ten years of monitoring environmental behaviour. A corner of the veil.

The articles presents the results gained over ten years of the Environmental Behaviour Monitor in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2000. Information from the Environmental Behaviour Monitor, together with a new Cabinet minister and continuous discussions on environmental policy have changed the policy of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. It now aims at the integration of policy areas, which is the living, space and environment. The key issue is no longer the environment as such, but also the living climate and, in the end, quality of life. The concept "living climate" will function from now on as an overall concept for the panel, which has therefore been renamed the Living Climate Monitor. The purpose of the Living Climate Monitor is to supply the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment with information on all sorts of activities people undertake that influence not only the quality of the environment, but also the quality of their living climate and the quality of life itself.