CityDelta: a model intercomparison study to explore the impact of emission reductions in European cities in 2010
In the context of the Clean Air For Europe programme of the European Commission, the CityDelta project was designed to evaluate the impact of emission-reduction strategies on air quality at the…
Downscaling drivers of global environmental change: enabling use of global SRES scenarios at the national and grid levels
Interaction between human and environmental systems has become an important focal point of research of the last decades. An important aspect of this relationship is scale. As different phenomena take…
Communicating biodiversity to policymakers and a wider audience
This paper provides a general overview of issues involved when communicating biodiversity to policymakers. It is an output of the ALTER-Net subproject on ‘Aggregating indicators for policy purposes…
Indicators as communication tools: an evolution towards composite indicators
This paper provides an overview of various ways of presenting biodiversity information to policymakers and the general public. It focuses on the use of composite indicators. It is an output of the…
Heavy metals emissions, depositions, critical loads and exceedances in Europe
Human activities release heavy metals into the atmosphere where they are also transported across national boundaries. This has resulted in an enrichment of heavy metals in environments that are far…
The importance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting climate
The 1987 Montreal Protocol - restricting the use of ozone-depleting substances - has helped both to reduce global warming and to protect the ozone layer. The benefit to climate achieved by the…
Income Dynamics in Couples and the Dissolution of Marriage and Cohabitation
Several studies have shown that a wife’s strong (socio)economic position is associated with an increase in the risk of divorce. Less is known about such effects for cohabiting relationships. Using a…
The International Biodiversity Project 'Understanding Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Poverty in order to support policy makers'
In the International Biodiversity Project, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency supports policy making on biodiversity-related issues, on several scales. The relation with poverty is a…
The aim of this study is to examine whether there is a relationship between, on the one hand, the total household energy requirement and, on the other, value patterns, the motivation to save energy or…
Transparency of corporate social responsibility in Dutch breweries
According to the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (2001), transparency by means of Sustainability Reporting should lead to better Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance of companies…
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