Composition and Origin of Airborne Particulate Matter in the Netherlands
Particulate Matter (PM) in ambient air has consistently and coherently been associated with serious human health effects. The new EU air quality standards have, for the Dutch government, led to a…
Technical Report on Acidification, Eutrophication and Tropospheric Ozone in Europe: an integrated economic and environmental assessment
The economic assessment of priorities for a European environmental policy plan focuses on twelve identified Prominent European Environmental Problems such as climate change, chemical risks and…
During the second Advisory Board Meeting on IMAGE 2.0 (Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment) which took place in june 1994, it was discussed to improve the Agricultural Economy Model (AEM…
Ecotoxicological Serious Risk Concentrations for soil, sediment and (ground)water: updated proposals for first series of compounds
The Intervention Value for soil and groundwater is based on the integration of a separately derived human toxicological Serious Risk Concentration or SRChuman as well as an ecotoxicological Serious…
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…
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…
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…
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