Publications

This report evaluates voluntary climate change initiatives by US business and industry geared to reducing greenhouse gases.

The Dutch Environmental Indicator for plant protection products (NMI) is a software package used for calculating the potential environmental impact of plant protection products, which are used in…

Land-use-change patterns are the result of the complex interaction between the human and the physical environment. Case studies of the determinants of land-use change can help to analyse which theory…

A microcosm experiment that addressed the interaction between eutrophication processes and contaminants was analyzed using a food web model. Both direct and indirect effects of nutrient additions and…

Climate change over the past approximately 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction.

Ever since the Brundtland Commission presented its report on sustainable development in 1987, various institutions have either adopted or tried to refine the approach used in the report. Currently…

A few aspects of the EMEP Unified (Eulerian) model have been evaluated by analysing the deposition parameterisation for acidifying compounds and the concentration and deposition of SO x , NO x , and…

Demographic developments have played an important role in the structure and functioning of the Earth's system. The exponential population growth of the last century has led to high pressures on the…

In the framework of the Cloud Liquid Water Network (CLIWA-NET) project, an attempt is made to reconstruct the spatial distribution of liquid water path (LWP) by combining data from a network of ground…

Comparing maps is an important issue in environmental research. This report addresses the problem of quantifying subsequent map similarities and dissimilarities.