"... is a brilliant introduction for the addressed readership ... All contributions demonstrate very impressively the increasing importance of applied environmental catalysis and moreover they define the progress of modern societies for minimizing the environmental impacts." Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

• Catalysis and the environment, R.A. van Santen; catalysts for renewable energy and chemicals, the thermal conversion of biomass, F. Janssen; fuel cells, J.A.R. van Veen; catalytic processes for high-quality transportation fuels, K.P. de Jong; oxidative coupling of methane and related reactions, J.H. Lunsford; methane utilization via synthesis gas generation - catalytic chemistry and technology, J.A. Lercher et al; towards catalysis in a sustainable fine chemical industry, L.A. Hulshof; catalytic combustion, J.W. Geus and A.J. van Dillen; water treatment by heterogeneous photocatalysis, J.-M. Herrmann; catalytical removing nitrate from water, K.-D. Vorlop and Y. Prusse; contribution of catalysis towards the reduction of atmospheric air pollution - CO2, CFCs, N2O, ozone, A.E. van Diepen et al; emission control from mobile sources - Otto and diesel engines, A.E. van Diepen et al; emission control from stationary sources, F. Janssen; polymers, back to chemical feedstocks, L.A.A. Schoen and L.C.E. Struik; deactivation, regeneration and recycling of hydroprocessing catalysts, S. Eijsbouts.