Publications

This Manual is the basic guideline for modelling and mapping critical levels and loads and their exceedances, and for dynamic modelling of acidification. It helps Parties to the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) to fulfil their obligations to use harmonized methods to derive data for effects and risk assessments.

Five epidemiological studies were performed following a randomised, controlled study design in order to evaluate the risk of contracting infectious diseases from bathing in fresh water. Study locations were situated in the north, east, southwest and southeast of Germany: four sites on lakes and one site on a river.

The aim of the research project is the examination of different possibilities to record and then work out suggestions for the reduction of emissions into the air, pollution of the environment by waste water, waste and oil as well as impairments caused by noise and vibrations from ships in the ports of Lübeck-Travemünde within the scope of the implementation of the Agenda 21 process.

This book focuses on liability provisions adopted and applied by states in environmental treaties and protocols as well as the international jurisprudence and non-contractual law creation processes as the decision-making of the Iraq Claims Commission.

Having said all of this, state advertising for regional products is allowed by world trade law in a comparable extent as from the EC law.

It was the aim of the study to assess the sampling volume and the costs that would be required to monitor NiCd-batteries in municipal solid waste. The following tasks have been carried out: 1. Identification of relevant waste streams, i.e. waste streams containing relevant amounts of NiCd batteries; 2. Selection of appropriate sampling strategies for the relevant waste streams; 3.

The current toolkit is based on the results of the research & development project “Suitable Instruments for Integrating Biodiversity Considerations in Climate Change Mitigation Activities, Particularly in the Land Use and Energy Sector” (Choudhury et al. 2004).

Pharmaceutical residues are not totally eliminated during municipal sewage treatment and are thus discharged into the aquatic environment via STP effluents. Despite the extensive use of pharmaceuticals in modern medicine, relatively little is known about the occurrence and the fate of pharmaceuticals in sediments and environmental waters.  

In this study, the degree of air pollution resulting from shipping traffic in the surroundings of Skandinavienkai in Lübeck-Travemünde has been considered. In order to estimate the total level of emissions, the main road network within the area under investigation has been included in the study.

The eutrophying effects resulting from increased deposition rates of reactive nitrogen to ecosystems are a major problem in the context of long range transported air pollution. Therfore, one focus of the related effects oriented research is to improve knowledge on time- and area-depending effects for modelling purposes.

There is indicative evidence that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are leading to changes in the global climate. The consequences for human beings and the environment as predicted by experts will vary from region to region. Precipitation levels are expected to increase in some regions, and decrease in others.

As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. By adopting the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the international community of nations reached agreement, for the first time ever, on binding aims and implementation instruments for global climate protection.