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It is likely that the air quality standards for PM2.5 will be met in time under current and proposed national and European policies, assuming average meteorological conditions. In 2015, the...

The GISMO User Support System (GUSS) allows exploring human development dynamics, which have been used in the report: ‘Beyond 2015: Long-term development and the Millennium Development Goals’. These...

Reasoning back from 2050, specific strategic actions are identified for the EU in the coming five to ten years. Key factors in the analysis are the magnitude and inherent slow pace of change. The...

Current trends in fossil-fuel use and inefficient land use will lead to large global environmental problems with respect to climate change and biodiversity loss. Technical and economically feasible...

In many respects, the Netherlands is a prosperous country, where public health, average incomes and education levels all have increased considerably since the Second World War. People trust each other...

The current proposals for Copenhagen by the developed countries to reduce emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 ˚C. It would require a reduction of 25 to 40% in...

The feasibility of meeting both the short-term and long-term targets of environmental policy is heavily influenced by the consequences of the current recession. In the short term, the environment will...

The contribution of carbon to particulate matter is larger in urban areas than outside those areas. The increment in urban EC and OC concentrations was found mainly to be caused by traffic emissions...

The area devoted to nature conservation is increasing and the environmental and spatial conditions are improving. Nevertheless, the trends are not strong enough to achieve the stated conservation...

Measurements and model results confirm that when PM concentrations are high, the contribution of sea salt to PM is less than the averaged annual contribution. In these cases, subtraction of the sea...