Present and future sources and emissions of halocarbons: toward new constraints
It has been more than two decades since the first observation of the large seasonal depletion of stratospheric ozone over Antarctica. Since then, polar and midlatitude ozone losses have been well…
Closing the gap between science and policy on air pollution and health
Past and recent improvements in environmental quality, including air quality, are the result of weighing ecological, economic, and social interests in decision making. Despite this success, air…
Fine particles: from scientific uncertainty to policy strategy
Gaps in our knowledge should not be a reason for not making policy decisions. How can we define robust policy strategies, given the various uncertainties in the sources, exposure, and causes of health…
An international colloquium, "Strategies for Clean Air and Health," was organized by the Network of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management (NERAM) and the AIRNET European Network on Air…
Uncertainty management in the IPCC: agreeing to disagree
Dealing consistently with risk and uncertainty across the IPCC reports is a difficult challenge. Huge practical difficulties arise from the Panel's scale and interdisciplinary context, the complexity…
Exploring techno-economic scenarios in an input-output model
The dynamic Input-Output model DIMITRI can be used for long-term scenario explorations on technology, demand and environmental effects. The model describes at a sectoral level the relations and…
Time horizon dependent characterization factors for acidification in life-cycle assessment based on forest plant species occurrence in Europe
This study focuses on life-cycle impact assessment to derive characterization factors for acidification in European forests. These characterization factors express the contribution of each emission…
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…
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