Mapping contemporary global cropland and grassland distributions on a 5 × 5 minute resolution
This paper describes the development of agricultural land cover maps with 5 × 5 minute resolution based on satellite data and agricultural statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)…
Cost-effectiveness of additional abatement options for cleaner air
Since air quality measures can be effectuated quicker under national policy than under European policy, further improvement of the air quality in the Netherlands up to 2015 will have to come from…
Monitoring aerosol over Europe using AATSR. HIRAM final report
Aerosol data form the AATSR satellite were, in general, found to be of lower quality than those of the MODIS satelitte for 2003. Improvement of the cloud detection in AATSR data will be necessary…
India is playing an increasingly important role in the global economy and, correspondingly, in resource use and emissions. Yet, the modelling tools for exploring the opportunities and threats for…
How Dutch citizens prioritize the social agenda. An analysis of the 2003, 2005 en 2006 surveys
Measuring the social agenda for sustainability: a survey-based approach. According to the Social Economic Council of the Netherlands a society becomes more sustainable when consumers and businesses…
International review of the GLOBIO model version 3
In April 2005, a review committee gathered to assess the scientifically validity and policy-relevance of the GLOBIO3 model as part of the International Biodiversity project. Four members of the…
A2M - a program to compute all possible mineral modes from geochemical analyses
A2M (‘Analysis to Mineralogy’) is a computer program to determine, for given total chemical analyses, all possible mineral modes from an arbitrary but pre-specified set of minerals.
Evidence for large average concentrations of the nitrate radical (NO3) in Western Europe from the HANSA hydrocarbon database
The nitrate radical (NO 3 ) was first measured in the atmosphere in the 1970s and suggestions were made that it could play a major role in oxidising many unsaturated hydrocarbons, such as those…
Combining biodiversity modeling with political and economic development scenarios for 25 EU countries
Due to urbanization and increase in stress factors, biodiversity is projected to decrease between now and 2030 in most countries for all scenarios, indicating that it is unlikely that the EU will be…
The consequences of interpolating or calculating first on the simulation of pesticide leaching at the regional scale
Models for calculating pesticide leaching require soil data, which is collected at drilling points. This article describes how this information can be interpolated to maps on the national scale and…