Food security may be threatened by loss of soil productivity as a result of human-induced land degradation. Water erosion is the most important cause of land degradation, and its effects are…
Upscaling and Downscaling of Regional Methane Sources - rice agriculture as a case study
Methane (CH 4) is a potent greenhouse gas. Wetland rice fields constitute one of the major anthropogenic CH 4 sources but the source strength is surrounded by a large uncertainty. The work presented…
Effects of climate change on water relations in forests were studied using several modelling approaches. Of several models tested, the FORGRO model had the highest potential for a reliable estimation…
The study evaluates the Dutch regime formation on climate change in the years around the Kyoto Protocol (1997) based on case studies on Burden sharing / the Triptych approach and North-South relations…
Evaluation of Options for Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions bij Changes in Household Consumption Patterns
The Lifestyle project (funded in NRP-1) studied energy requirements of entire household consumption patterns. There, it was concluded that a substantial reduction potential existed for the total…
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…
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