Pesticides can potentially cause undesirable adverse side effects on nontarget organisms, humans, and the environment (soils, surface, and groundwater resources) because pesticides are toxic by design…
Trend analysis from 1970 to 2008 and model evaluation of EDGARv4 global gridded anthropogenic mercury emissions
The Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) provides a time-series of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived atmospheric pollutants from 1970 to 2008. With an average…
Reducing the variation of environmental footprint estimates based on multiregional input-output databases
The concept of environmental footprints emerged at the beginning of the 1990’s through the introduction of the “ecological footprint”. In later years, carbon, water, material, land footprints and even…
Regional differences in mitigation strategies: an example for passenger transport
This paper shows the importance of including region-specific circumstances in long-term climate change mitigation strategies, by example of a modeling exercise of the transport sector. Important…
Maatschappelijke ontwrichting door overstromingen in Europees perspectief
Kan een maat voor de maatschappelijke ontwrichting bij een overstroming worden verkregen door de impact van die overstroming te berekenen met de methodiek van de Strategie Nationale Veiligheid? Deze…
On the relation between weather-related disaster impacts, vulnerability and climate change
Disasters such as floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts can have enormous implications for health, the environment and economic development. In this article, we address the question how climate…
Vulnerability of coastal ecosystems to changes in harmful algal bloom distribution in response to climate change: projections based on model analysis
Harmful algal blooms (HABs), those proliferations of algae that can cause fish kills, contaminate seafood with toxins, form unsightly scums, or detrimentally alter ecosystem function have been…
Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change with IMAGE 3.0 - Model description and policy applications
The IMAGE integrated assessment modelling framework has been developed to understand how global, long-term environmental change and sustainability problems develop over time, driven by human…
Geïntegreerde analyse van mondiale milieuproblemen op basis van IMAGE 3.0. Modeldocumentatie en toepassingen
Het IMAGE-model is ontwikkeld om te kunnen begrijpen hoe mondiale, langdurige milieu- en duurzaamheidsproblemen zich ontwikkelen als gevolg van menselijke activiteiten, inclusief economische…
The resilience of regional labour markets to economic shocks
Although increasing attention is being paid to the resilience of regions to economic shocks, theoretical and empirical insights into the determinants of regional resilience remain limited. This paper…
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