Are we sure? Some thoughts about uncertainty treatment in integrated assessment
‘Are we sure?’ ‘Are we right?’ ‘Do we feel confident?’ These questions summarise the feeling of uncertainty that is always nagging at our conscience whenever a policy decision is going to be based on…
Issues in international climate policy: theory and policy
Climate change is currently at the centre of scientific and political debate, and the need for well-designed international climate policies is widely recognized. Despite this, the complexity of both…
Options for international climate policies: towards an effective regime
The authors contribute to the many discussions on international climate policy and provide an in-depth analysis of the main characteristics of the problem of climate change. They highlight the various…
Value of decomposition figures in emission reduction policy analysis at international level - Report of a traineeship at RIVM
Decomposition analysis is a method for dis-entangling the different key-factors that determine temporal changes in emission levels. It is a 'top-down' method starting from general available…
Present state and future prospects for groundwater ecosystems
Ecological and socioeconomic aspects of subterranean hydrosystems have changed during the past 40–50 years. The major environmental pressures (mainly anthropogenic ones) impact the quantity and…
Checks and verification at national and international levels
National inventories submitted under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are updated annually, i.e. the inventory for a new year is compiled and added and the emissions of the other…
The integrated modeling system STONE for calculating nutrient emissions from agriculture in the Netherlands
For the Netherlands, a nutrient emission modeling system, called STONE, has been developed. It was designed for evaluation at the national and regional scale of the effects of changes in the…
Global emission sources of greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processes: SF6
This Supporting Information Paper provides a more comprehensive picture of global SF 6 emissions, by putting them in the broader perspective of total global emissions from industrial non-combustion…
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