Consequences of the European Policy Package on Climate and Energy. Initial assessment of the consequences for the Netherlands and other Member States
National targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions will become less important when the proposals by the European Commission on Climate and Energy, released earlier this year, will be…
The potential role of hydrogen energy in India and Western Europe
Hydrogen energy is often mentioned as a potential solution for several challenges that the global energy system is facing. The first advantage is the fact that hydrogen use results in nearly zero…
Influence of future air pollution mitigation strategies on total aerosol radiative forcing
Different aerosol and aerosol precursor emission scenarios were applied reflecting possible future control strategies for air pollution in the ECHAM5-HAM model, and simulate the resulting effect on…
Energy Security, air pollution, and climate change: an integrated cost-benefit approach
A combined cost-benefit analysis on energy security, local air pollution and global climate change - three closely related problems, as they are driven by fossil energy - shows that integrated…
Background report to the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030
International environmental policy has a chance of succeeding if Brazil, Russia, India and China participate, and if swift action is taken. Then, serious climate policy will be affordable and feasible…
Applying climatically associated species pools to the modelling of compositional change in tropical montane forests
Species distribution modelling is a useful tool for extracting the maximum amount of information from biological collections and floristic inventories. However, in many tropical regions records are…
The LOTOS-EUROS model: description, validation and latest developments
This paper presents a validation study for oxidants and secondary inorganic aerosols using the new regional Chemistry Transport Model (CTM) Long Term Ozone Simulation (LOTOS) European Operational Smog…
Large-scale air quality concentrations maps in the Netherlands. Report 2008
In the Netherlands, the number of locations were the European limit values for particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide will be exceeded is expected to decrease by 70-90%, in the period up to 2011…
A framework to identify appropriate spatial and temporal scales for modeling N flows from watersheds
Many different large-scalewatershed nitrogen (N) flowmodels exist, which describe processes related to the horizontal movement of N through large drainage networks of river basins. Equations of such…
How has the world changed during the last 20 years after the publication of Our Common Future by the Brundtland Commission, and after the United Nations issued the Rio Declaration on Environment and…
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