During the second Advisory Board Meeting on IMAGE 2.0 (Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment) which took place in june 1994, it was discussed to improve the Agricultural Economy Model (AEM…
Ecotoxicological Serious Risk Concentrations for soil, sediment and (ground)water: updated proposals for first series of compounds
The Intervention Value for soil and groundwater is based on the integration of a separately derived human toxicological Serious Risk Concentration or SRChuman as well as an ecotoxicological Serious…
Effects of climate and land-use change on lowland stream ecosystems
During the past decades human interference in regional hydrologic systems had intensified. These systems act as an integrating medium. They link climate, human activities and ecological processes…
This report evaluates the environmental effectiveness and economic efficiency of the Kyoto Protocol as agreed at the resumed session of COP 6 in July 2001 in Bonn.
TAPWAT: Definition structure and applications for modelling drinking water treatment
The 'Tool for the Analysis of the Production of drinking WATer' (TAPWAT) model has been developed for describing drinking-water quality in integral studies in the context of the Environmental Policy…
Valuing the benefits of environmental policy: the Netherlands
This study seeks to set priorities for environmental policy in the Netherlands. We focused on seven environmental issues including: climate change, acidification, low level ozone, particulate matter…
Terrestrial carbon sinks and the Kyoto protocol: the scientific issues
Since the publication of the IPCC special report on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, considerable advances in our understanding of the global carbon cycle have occurred. This report attempts to…
Modelling the impact of climate change on the Wadden Sea ecosystem
In the framework of the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change, ecological responses of the Wadden Sea ecosystem to changing climate conditions have been studied.
Uncertainty and RIVM's Environmental Outlooks: Documenting a learning process
Politics, policy and society increasingly demand for more insight in the robustness of environmental outlooks (future projections). This report describes what the RIVM, in cooperation with ICIS…