Technical Report on chemicals, particulate matter and human health, air quality and noise
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…
Technical Report on Biodiversity 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…
The risk evaluation of difficult substances in USES 2.0 and EUSES. A decision tree for data gap filling of Kow, Koc and BCF
This report presents a decision tree for the risk evaluation of the so-called "difficult" substances with the Uniform System for the Evaluation of Substances (USES). The decision tree gives practical…
Biodiversity indicators for the OECD Environmental Outlook and Strategy
This study addresses the question whether it is feasable to measure the development of biodiversity at the OECD level. The answer can be summarized as: yes, if certain recommendations are followed. In…
Insights for the third Global Environment Outlook from related global scenario analyses. Working paper for GEO-3
This report relates to the ongoing development of scenarios for the third Global Environment Outlook (GEO-3) of UNEP. It illustrates the scale and type of environmental impacts that GEO-3 needs to…
Multi-scale land use modelling with the CLUE Modelling Framework
For global change policies it is highly relevant to include information of Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC), as LULCC contributes to global change but also offers possibilities for mitigation…
Urbanisation, Industrialisation and Sustainable development
This paper describes two important transformations of the past century: industrialisation and urbanisation. These transformations will continue in the new century and create policy challenges because…
The integrated nitrous oxide and methane grassland project
The integrated nitrous oxide (N 2 O) and methane (CH 4 ) grassland project aims to estimate and explain emissions of these greenhouse gases from two ecosystems, namely drained agricultural peat soil…
The PEARL model is used to evaluate the leaching of pesticide to the groundwater in support to the Dutch and European pesticide registration procedures. PEARL is an acronym for Pesticide Emission…