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Chemicals, Economy | Consumption, Health

Building Products: Determining and avoiding pollutants and odours

Results from a research project

2nd, revised edition

This brochure highlights scientific investigations on building products, performed by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in co-operation with the Hermann Rietschel Institute of the Technical University of Berlin and commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). In the “Environmental and Health Provisions for Building Products – Determination and assessment of...read more

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brochure / flyer
Number of pages
104
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272
Climate | Energy

Regional climate changes: Recent findings

WETTREG: A statistical regionalization model

Climate change is no longer a matter of a distant future; it is already taking place all over the world, in Europe and also in Germany. Thus, an increase in the number of extreme weather events such as heat spells and floods is observed. For example, the Elbe flood in 2002 caused material damage amounting to more than 9 thousand million Euros; 18 persons lost their lives. A comparison of historica...read more

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background paper
Number of pages
27
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180
Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Technology Transfer for Plant-related Water Protection in Moldavia, Romania and the Ukraine, Subproject 2, The Ukraine

Background of the project was the fact that the technological and organisational level of plant safety in East European countries is not as developed as the EU-standards require it. These deficits have already lead to major environmental accidents or they could lead to short or long term natural disasters, in these countries.read more

Number of pages
65
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Economy | Consumption, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Legal appraisal of nano Technologies

Existing legal framework, the need for regulation and regulative

Nano technology is regarded as a key technology of the 21st century, which will be used in a large lumber of industries and technical applications. On the hand, completely new products are being developed, and on the other hand, existing technical solutions are being replaced with 'nao solutions'. Possible application fields for nano technology are ineresting from an economic point of view, but th...read more

Number of pages
75
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141
Water, Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

Evaluation of policy measures and methods to reduce diffuse water pollution

(Evaluation von Politikansätzen und Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung diffuser Gewässerbelastungen)

After considerable improvements of wastewater treatment, the loads of nutrients and plant protection agents, deriving from agriculture and heavy metals from urban drainages effluents as well as from erosion of agricultural soils are the main sources of nutrients and harmful substances in the loads of water bodies. On account of this, the Environmental Agency has initiated the project "Evaluation o...read more

Series
Texte
Number of pages
168
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76
Transport

Increased stringency of noise limits for civil jet aircraft with emphasis on the trade-off between noise and pollutant emissions of jet engines

- Final Report -

This project on the tightening up of noise limits for civil jet aircraft has the objective, based on the insights of a status-quo analysis, of preparing proposals for updating Annex 16 and of undertaking an assessment of proposals for new (more stringent) noise limits, bearing in mind aspects of environmental protection as well as from a technical, legal and economic point of view. Recommendations...read more

Number of pages
177
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