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The Eururalis project was initiated by the Working Group Sustainable Development and Systems Innovation (Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands) and was commissioned by a Dutch Ministry which at the time was called Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food quality. The Eururalis 1.0 project started in October 2003 and finished in October, 2004. The Eururalis 2.0 project ran from June 2006 until April 2008. The institutes that are now involved in the Eururalis 3.0 project are: Alterra, Research Institute for the Green Space, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency - PBL Bilthoven, The Netherlands Agricultural Economics Institute (LEI), The Hague, The Netherlands Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands There is a Policy Advisory Group, with a few policy makers from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.	Eururalis is a scenario study starting from four contrasting world visions Takes into account the major forces driving land use change Provides a tool for exploring impacts of drivers and policies on sustainability at the global and local scale Provides a consistent linkage between the economic and the biophysical domains Provides fuel for discussion, it is no blueprint for decisions