A behavioral analysis of private car use by households
In this study various aspects of ownership and use of private cars by households are studied. The private car has been at the centre of discussions about environmental problems for many years.
Scanning WorldScan; final report on the presentation and evaluation of WorldScan, a model of the WORLD economy for Scenario ANalysis
This report provides an overview of the efforts put forth to present and evaluate WorldScan, a long-term model of the world economy, developed at the (Central Planning Bureau)CPB. One of the pivotal…
Calculation and Mapping of Critical Thresholds in Europe: Status Report 1997
The fourth report on the Coordination Center for Effects (CCE) describes critical threshold methodologies and results which are used for the scientific support of the second nitrogen oxide protocol…
A global high-resolution emission inventory for ammonia
A global emissions inventory for ammonia (NH3) has been compiled for the main known sources on a 1°×1° grid, suitable for input to global atmospheric models.
Greenhouse Gas Emission Accounting: preliminary study as input to a joint International IPCC Expert Meeting/CKO-CCB Workshop on Comparison of Top-down versus Bottom-up Emission Estimates
Bottom-up data for carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from the official national inventories (National Communications) were compared with data from EDGAR (Emission Database for Global…
A system for monitoring SO2 dry deposition fluxes to low vegetation
The improvements of the monitoring system which has been used since 1987 are discussed. The performance of the system in due form, and the reliability and accuracy of the fluxes were evaluated by…
In comparison with the long time horizon of climate change, the time horizon of climate policy-making is by necessity much shorter. To support current climate negotiations, a methodology has been…
RIVM's involvement in integrated environmental assessment, reporting and forecasting has brought about the development of a comprehensive information infrastructure. Over the last few years, this has…
Dry deposition monitoring over the Speulder forest. Description of the equipment and evaluation of the measuring methods
This report is part of a series of reports published to complete the projects Speuld (RIVM project 722108) and EC LIFE (93/NL/A23/NL/3547). The report describes a monitoring system for continuous…
Consumer Behaviour, a modelling perspective in the context of integrated assessment of global change
Human consumption of products and services is a major factor in the process of global change. So far, integrated assessment models (e.g., TARGETS) implicitly incorporate the behaviour of consumers…
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