A general inventory and outlook for the future of SB in the Netherlands, however written before a change of governement ( more liberal approach nowadays)
Some insight in typical way of Dutch policy making is describe din this document:
How to implement policies for renewable energy? A study .
How to deal with the 30-40 years old highrise housing stock? It's a major problem to renovate and upgrade this stock, its also studied jointly by the European ministers of housing.
Looking forward to housing in this century is analysed in this document:
The Netherlands works with Social housing associations for over a 100 years now, and these are a major player in the housing management. Here is analysed how they integrate sustainable management.
Netherlands has a long history of detailed spatial planning. However its under deiscussion, since the country is facing to little space left within the acting regulations, and has to cope with growing pressure from water, both from inside ( rivers) as from outside (sea). Past years showed new insights on how to manage the country. Here is 2 documents that give some insight in this:
The National Building decree has included environmental and sustainable issues over the years. Here is a study that lists options to be included ( and partly are already)
Since the 19seventies The Netherlands has addressed energy reduction and efficient supply of energy. With successes and failures. A lot of knowledge is available now, and 0-energy projects demonstrated for instance , in various configurations. However mainstream implementation is held up now, as well as renewable energy developments, while energy consumption is growing.
In this report (from 2001) the trends in energy consumption are analysed:
The market for introduction of renewable energy is explored, including the green electricity scheme ( people buy green electricity to be supplied to their house or building).
Here is a report that looks into more detail to the Dutch situation regarding Photo Voltaic electricity.
Behaviour change has always been a major strategy. This describes an interesting experiment with 12 families
