Climate Change: Socio-Economic impacts and violent conflict
This report contains a literature study on the socio economic impacts of climate change and the possibilities of violent conflicts enhanced by the greenhouse effect.
Environmental Security and Sustainable Development
On 18-19 April 1996 an international workshop was organised by NWO, the Dutch HDP-committee and NRP to contribute to the research planning within the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on…
Greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands 1990 - 1995. Methodology and data for 1994 and provisional data for 1995
The inventory presented in this report complies with the obligations under the European Union's Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism and the UN-FCCC for emission reports on all greenhouse gases not…
Long-range Atmospheric Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants, I: Description of surface-atmosphere exchange modules and implementation in EUROS
Concerns a description of a model for the exchange of gaseous Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) at land and sea surfaces and its application in the Eulerian air pollution transport model EUROS.
The Urban Air Quality Assessment Model (UAQAM) calculates the city concentration caused by city emissions themselves, the so-called city background concentration. Three versions of the model for…
Evaluation of the Netherlands Groundwater Model, LGM, for calculating pathlines, travel times and concentration at abstraction wells
The merits of the quasi-three-dimensional RIVM groundwater model, LGM (version 2) were evaluated for the calculation of pathlines, travel times and solute breakthrough curves at abstraction wells. The…
Scenarios for economy and environment in Central and Eastern Europe
In 1993 an integrated assessment of the economic scenarios of Central and Eastern European countries, as developed by the World Bank, was carried out, primarily for emissions, deposition and…
Documentation of the five submodels of Targets/IMage Energy (TIME) 1.0 model are presented. Energy Demand, Liquid Fuel (LF), Gaseous Fuel (GF), Solid Fuel (SF) and Electric Power Generation (EPG) are…
Background and purpose: This report on fertility change in India presents the results of a project on integrated population modelling initiated by the National Institute of Public Health and…
Environmental quality of primary and secundary construction materials in relation to re-use and protection of soil and surface water
To support the General Administrative Order on Construction Materials (Soil and Surface Waters Protection) this document supplies information on: the quantification of the standard values for the…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency