Dutch dikes, and risk hikes; a thematic policy evaluation of risks of flooding in the Netherlands. Extended summary
Flood defences in the Netherlands are stronger than ever due to extensive improvement programs the past decades. However, flood risks have increased because the number of people and the economic…
The health impacts of globalisation: a conceptual framework
This paper describes a conceptual framework for the health implications of the globalisation process in the following three steps: 1) defining the concept of population health and identifying its main…
Simulating processes of soil phosphorus in geologically young acidic soils of Finland
To properly simulate phosphorus (P) loading from agricultural land to waters, changes in soil P status and processes affecting soil P have to be described adequately. For practical reasons, a model…
Biodiversity Trends and Threats in Europe; development and test of a species trend indicator
This report presents a trial of a species population trend indicator for evaluating progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target in Europe, using existing data.
Nitrate leaching in agriculture to upper groundwater in the sandy regions of the Netherlands during the 1992-1995 period
The Dutch National Monitoring Programme for Effectiveness of the Minerals Policy (LMM) was initiated to allow detection of a statutory reduction in nitrate leaching caused by a decreasing N load. The…
Impacts of future land cover changes on atmospheric CO2 en climate
Climate-carbon cycle model CLIMBER2-LPJ is run with consistent fields of future fossil fuel CO 2 emissions and geographically explicit land cover changes for four Special Report on Emissions Scenarios…
Recent trends in global greenhouse gas emissions: regional trends 1970-2000 and spatial distribution of key sources in 2000
In 2004, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) and the Max Plank Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) started a project to create…
Transformation of the first daughter directive on air quality in several EU member states and its application in practice
Since the transposition of the first Daughter Directive on air quality into Dutch national law, various plans for spatial developments in the Netherlands were rejected because of possible violation of…
Country-dependent characterisation factor for acidification in Europe - a critical evaluation
Country-dependent characterisation factors for acidification have been derived for use in life cycle assessments to describe the effect on ecosystem protection of a change in national emissions. They…
Meeting the EU 2 degrees C climate target: global and regional emission implications
What global and regional emission reductions are needed to meet the EU 2°C climate target? Meeting the EU climate policy target with more than 50% certainty implies that greenhouse gas concentrations…
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