A Hundred Year (1890 - 1990) Database for Integrated Environmental Assessments (HYDE, version 1.1)
Testing against historical data is an important step in the validation of simulation models. Because of their wide scope and coverage, global change models require a large amount of data for testing…
Ordination of the integrated monitoring data gathered under auspices of ICP-IM, UN-ECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution: 1989-1994
This report contains a limited number of exploratory multi-variate statistical gradient analyses of cause effect relationships in the data which are gathered in the framework of the International Co…
A database of methane concentrations as measured in the Netherlands and Europe
In order to increase our knowledge of methane emissions on a small scale the project 'Sources, regional scaling and validation of CH 4 emissions from the Netherlands and Northwest Europe' is carried…
Effect of greenhouse gas emissions on stratospheric ozone depletion
The depletion of the ozone layer is caused mainly by the increase in emissions of chlorine- and bromine-containing compounds like CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride, methyl chloroform and methyl…
The Future of the Global Environment: A Model-based Analysis Supporting UNEP's First Global Environment Outlook
This report documents the scenario analysis in UNEP's first Global Environment Outlook, published at the same time as the scenario analysis. This Outlook provides a pilot assessment of developments in…
Description of EDGAR Version 2.0: A set of global emission inventories of greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances for all anthropogenic and most natural sources on a per country basis and on 1 degree x 1 degree grid
A global emission source database called EDGAR (Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research) has been developed jointly by TNO and RIVM to meet the needs of policy-makers and of atmospheric…
Land use and cover change as an overarching topic in the Dutch national research programme on global air pollution and climate change. Issues for implementation
The integration study 'Land Use and Cover Change as an overarching topic in the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change (NRP)' aims at identifying research fields…
Vulnerability of Human Population Health to Climate Change: state-of-knowledge and future research directions
Health effects of global climate change may include an increase in: heat-related mortality and morbidity, infectious diseases, particularly those that are vector-borne, and malnutrition and…
Climate Change: Socio-Economic impacts and violent conflict
This report contains a literature study on the socio economic impacts of climate change and the possibilities of violent conflicts enhanced by the greenhouse effect.
Environmental Security and Sustainable Development
On 18-19 April 1996 an international workshop was organised by NWO, the Dutch HDP-committee and NRP to contribute to the research planning within the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on…
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