The new decision tree for the evaluation of pesticide leaching from soils
The Dutch decision tree on leaching from soil has been re-designed to be more in line with EU guidelines on the assessment of the leaching potential of substances.
The GeoPEARL model: Part II - User guide and update of model description
Recently, the Netherlands has adopted a new decision tree for evaluating the leaching potential of pesticides, specifically to see if the concentration in groundwater exceeds the EU drinking-water…
Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets
Land use and land cover change is an important driver of global change. It is recognized that land use change has important consequences for global and regional climates, the global bio-geochemical…
The European Commission is constructing a strategy on air pollution within the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) programme. This strategy will be based on assessments using the RAINS model for different…
PCLake is an integrated model simulating the water quality of lakes, developed at RIVM. Among other things, the model may be used to evaluate the effects of measures that are proposed to enhance the…
Another reason for concern: regional and global impacts on ecosystems for different levels of climate change
This study assesses the impacts of climate change on species, ecosystems and landscapes over a range of increasing global mean temperatures and the corresponding temperature and precipitation patterns…
Footprints from the past, blueprints for the future?
This chapter sketches very briefly the long-term changes in land use and land cover that have occurred since human activity began, and then discusses two global data sets of land-use change for the…
Impacts of Europe's changing climate. An indicator-based assessment
The impacts of climate change on Europe's environment and society are shown in this report. Past trends in the climate, its current state and possible future changes are presented using 22 selected…
The aim of this report is to describe the development of a typology for urban background and streets in the Urban Hotspot Air Quality Analysis project of the ETC/ACC.
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency