Exploring the ancillary benefits of the Kyoto Protocol for air pollution in Europe
This report explores the potential ancillary benefits for air pollution - in terms of reductions in pollutant emissions and changes in control costs and environmental impacts - resulting from…
Critical loads of acidity for surface waters in south-central Ontario, Canada: regional application of the first-order acidity balance (FAB) model
Major sulphur emission control programs have been implemented in North America, resulting in current emissions being ∼30% less than those in 1980. However, the level of acidic deposition remaining is…
The problem of the future: sustainability science and scenario analysis
Unsustainable tendencies in the co-evolution of human and natural systems have stimulated a search for new approaches to understanding complex problems of environment and development.
In this study ways are explored to increase the policy coherence between the climate regime and a selected number of climate relevant policy areas, by adding a non-climate policy track to national and…
Environmental risk limits for antifouling substances
In 1989, the EU restricted the use of tributyl-tin (TBT) and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) decided for a world-wide ban on TBT in 2003. As a replacement for TBT, new antifouling agents…
A method to analyse neighbourhood characteristics of land use patterns
Neighbourhood interactions between land use types are often included in the spatially explicit analysis of land use change. Especially in the context of urban growth, neighbourhood interactions are…
Dutch Environmental Indicator for Plant Protection Products - Description of input data and calculation methods
The Dutch Environmental Indicator for plant protection products (NMI) is a software package used for calculating the potential environmental impact of plant protection products, which are used in…
Determinants of land-use change patterns in the Netherlands
Land-use-change patterns are the result of the complex interaction between the human and the physical environment. Case studies of the determinants of land-use change can help to analyse which theory…
A freshwater food web model for the combined effects of nutrients and insecticide stress and subsequent recovery
A microcosm experiment that addressed the interaction between eutrophication processes and contaminants was analyzed using a food web model. Both direct and indirect effects of nutrient additions and…
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