Publications

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…

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…

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…

EURuralis: A scenario study on Europe's Rural Areas to support policy discussion.

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.

Current air quality legislation of the European Union, Council Decision (97/101/EC), requires the Commission to prepare a technical report on a yearly basis, combining the meta information and air…

One of the pathways to follow in order to achieve the goals for sustainable development is an increased reliance on renewable energy, among others solar, wind and biomass energy that are all three…