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Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models

Never before in history was the interaction between people and their natural environment as complex and problematic as it is today.
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RIVM assesses the consequences of the Marrakesh Accords

Recently, RIVM has calculated the consequences of the Marrakesh Accords. This report updates RIVM's earlier report "Evaluating the Bonn Agreement and some key issues" by incorporating the impacts…
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Energy use and emissions by rail transport; description and results of the model PRORIN

Specific energy use by trains is generally based on aggregated data on energy use and transport volume (top-down method). However, in order to determine specific energy use for new rail concepts or to…
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Assessing effects of forecasted climate change on the diversity and distribution of European higher plants for 2050

The rapidly increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases may lead to significant changes in regional and seasonal climate patterns. Such changes can strongly influence the diversity and…
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Evaluating the Bonn–Marrakesh agreement

Without US participation, the emission permit price is estimated to be low. Therefore, banking hot air by Russia and the Ukraine is of absolute importance for the development of a viable emissions…
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Bridging Interest, Classification and Technology Gaps in the Climate Change Regime

The climate change regime is affected by a major credibility gap; there is a gap between what countries have been stating that they are willing to do and what they actually do.
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The European Nitrogen Case

The N budget for Europe (excluding the former Soviet Union) indicates that the 3 principal driving forces of the acceleration of the European N cycle are fertilizer production (14 Mt (mill. tonnes) N…

Predictions by the multimedia environmental fate model SimpleBox compared to field data: Intermedia concentration ratios of two phthalate esters

The multimedia environmental fate model SimpleBox is applied to compute steady-state concentration ratios with the aim to harmonize environmetal quality objectives of air, water, sediment and soil. In…
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Approaches to analyse interactions of climate change, acidification and ozone

This project focuses on the interactions of climate change, acidification, eutrophication, tropospheric ozone, stratospheric ozone and some other air pollutants (like soot).
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Interpretation of integrated monitoring data gathered at the Lheebroekerzand in the Netherlands

The Laboratory for Ecotoxicology of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment build up a database with data collected in the Lheebroekerzand from 1993 to 1999. Data from studies…
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