The feasibility of meeting both the short-term and long-term targets of environmental policy is heavily influenced by the consequences of the current recession. In the short term, the environment will…
Current policies are delivering benefits for Dutch nature. The area devoted to nature conservation is increasing and the environmental and spatial conditions are improving. Nevertheless, the trends…
Traffic emissions of elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) and their contribution to PM2.5 and PM10 urban background concentrations
The contribution of carbon to particulate matter is larger in urban areas than outside those areas. The increment in urban EC and OC concentrations was found mainly to be caused by traffic emissions…
Global nitrogen and phosphate in urban wastewater for the period 1970 to 2050
This paper constitutes the first spatially explicit, global assessment of sewage N and P emissions to surface water for the period 1970 to 2000, and the first projection of such N and P emissions for…
The contribution of sea salt to PM10 and PM2.5 in the Netherlands
Measurements and model results confirm that when PM concentrations are high, the contribution of sea salt to PM is less than the averaged annual contribution. In these cases, subtraction of the sea…
Epiphytic macrolichen community correlates with modeled air pollutants and forest conditions
Novel systems combining bioindicators, models, and remote sensing are possible cost-effective methods to monitor regional-scale pollution. Epiphytic macrolichen communities have been widely used as…
Calibration and Validation of the Land Use Scanner allocation algorithms
The Land Use Scanner is a spatial model that simulates future land use. Since its initial development in 1997, it has been applied in a large number of policy-related research projects.
Uncertainty in the Netherlands' greenhouse gas emissions inventory Estimation of the uncertainty about annual data and trend scenarios, using the IPCC Tier 1 approach
The Netherlands signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and, therefore, is bound to report its greenhouse gas emissions, on an annual basis in a National Greenhouse…
Global patterns of dissolved silica export to the coastal zone: Results from a spatially explicit global model
This study presents a model for river export of dissolved SiO 2 , with river-basin spatial scale and an annual temporal scale. The model is based on four variables with a significant influence on DSi…
An exploration of monitoring and modelling agrobiodiversity - From indicator development towards modelling biodiversity in agricultural systems on the sub-specific level
On a global level both for crop and livestock species there has been a general tendency towards uniformity in the culture of crops and livestock production systems. Local varieties are replaced by a…
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