Recent trends in global greenhouse gas emissions:regional trends 1970–2000 and spatial distributionof key sources in 2000
In 2004, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) and the Max Plank Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) started a project to create…
A guidance for assessing and communicating uncertainties
In the daily practice of science for policy, as experienced by governmental agencies which inform the policy and the public on the state and outlook of the environment, there is a pressing need for…
Sources and delivery of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus to the coastal zone: an overview of Global Nutrient Export from Watersheds (NEWS) models and their application
An overview of the first spatially explicit, multielement (N, P, and C), multiform (dissolved inorganic: DIN, DIP; dissolved organic: DOC, DON, DOP; and particulate: POC, PN, PP) predictive model…
Vulnerability and Human Well-being; Report of a workshop in preparation of GEO-4
This report explores different concepts of human vulnerability in relation to global environmental change and human well-being. It presents the results of a three day workshop on ‘Vulnerability and…
Countries' climate mitigation commitments under the 'South-North Dialogue' Proposal - a quantitative analysis using the FAIR 2.1 world model
The 'South–North Dialogue Proposal' outlines an approach for an 'equitable' differentiation of post-2012 commitments. An analysis of the proposal shows that for the stringent stabilisation targets…
Pesticide transport in groundwater at the national scale: coupling an unsaturated zone model with a groundwater flow model
Evaluation of the leaching potential of a pesticide and its metabolites is a crucial part of European registration procedures. So far, these procedures consider the movement into the shallow…
Environmental load from Dutch private consumption - How much damage takes place abroad?
This article describes a method for determining the environmental load of Dutch private consumption. The method generates detailed information about consumption-related environmental impacts.
Traffic noise in Europe: a comparison of calculation methods, noise indices and noise standards for road and railroad traffic in Europe
As the international dimension of environmental laws and legislation is gaining in importance, it has become increasingly essential to compare and assess international data. Can international data on…
Denitrification in agricultural soils: summarizing published data and estimating global annual rates
Information taken from 336 measurements of denitrification in agricultural soils was summarized to assess the influence on denitrification of several factors related to soil, climate, agricultural…
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