Scientific Opinion about the Guidance of the Chemical Regulation Directorate (UK) on how aged sorption studies for pesticides should be conducted, analysed and used in regulatory assessments
Aged sorption is the tendency of pesticides to adsorp more strongly with increasing time. As a results, it reduces the leaching of pesticides into groundwater. This opinion reviewes how aged sorption…
Scientific Opinion on the state of the art of Toxicokinetic/Toxicodynamic (TKTD) effect models for regulatory risk assessment of pesticides for aquatic organisms
The role of modelling in environmental risk assessment of plant protection products increases. They can be particularly important to predict (sub)lethal effects of plant protection products under…
Krasse knarren kúnnen kraken: over hoe het stapelen van verschillende beleidsdoelen ouderen onder druk kan zetten
Nederland is een land in transitie. Op verschillende domeinen, zoals de woningmarkt, de zorg en energie, voltrekken zich enorme verschuivingen. Omdat de domeinen verdeeld zijn over verschillende…
Better soils for healthier lives? Assessing the link between soil nutrients and malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Malnutrition, the sub-optimal consumption of essential nutrients like zinc, severely affects human health. This burden of malnutrition falls disproportionally heavy on developing countries, directly…
Circular Economy: what we want to know and can measure
With the government-wide programme ‘A circular economy in the Netherlands by 2050’, the Dutch Government has outlined its plans for the transition towards a circular economy. To be able to track…
Towards an urban preview: Modelling future urban growth with 2UP
Future projections of global population distribution and urbanization become increasingly important in scenario-based assessments of climate related exposure and vulnerability. The 2UP model is…
Land-use emissions play a critical role in land-based mitigation for Paris climate targets
Scenarios that limit global warming to below 2 °C by 2100 assume significant land-use change to support large-scale carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) removal from the atmosphere by afforestation/reforestation…
In the past decades, the relationship between water issues and conflict risks received much attention, both in the literature and the media. However, reports and publications warning about these…
Integrating Functions for a Sustainable Urban System: A Review of Multifunctional Land Use and Circular Urban Metabolism
Cities pose environmental challenges but also offer possibilities to close material and energy loops and connect multiple societal and ecologic services. Two important new research directions that…
Modelling the Water-Energy-Food-Land-Climate Nexus: The Nexus Tree Approach
The Water-Land-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus approach considers these five sectors as inextricably linked, forming a complex system of interrelations. A theoretical framework is presented to…
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