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…
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…
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…
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…
Technical evaluation of the Intervention Values for Soil/sediment and Groundwater. Human and ecotoxicological risk assessment and derivation of risk limits for soil, aquatic sediment and groundwater
Intervention Values are generic soil quality standards used to classify historically contaminated soils (i.e. before 1987) as seriously contaminated in the framework of the Dutch Soil Protection Act…
Accessibility measures: review and applications. Evaluation of accessibility impacts of land-use transportation scenarios, and related social and economic impact
This report describes an extensive literature study and three case studies aimed at reviewing accessibility measures for their ability to evaluate the accessibility impacts of national land-use and…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency