Publications | Umweltbundesamt

Waste | Resources, Agriculture, Water

Baltic Sea - Good Agricultural Practicein the new EU Member countries and theNorth-Western Region of the Russian Federation

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Protecting the Baltic Sea from environmental impact remains important even 30 years after foundation of the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM). Every year some one billion kilograms of nitrogen and roughly 40 million kilograms of phosphorous are still being discharged into the Baltic Sea, of which more than half stems from agriculture. The high phosphate and nitrogen inputs largely owe to the intensive...read more

Waste | Resources, Soil | Land

Workshop CORINE Land Cover 2000 in Germany and Europe and its use for Environmental Applications

20-21 January 2004, Berlin

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We are at the beginning of the year 2004 and thus only few weeks away from the enlargement of the European Union to 25 member states. Objective, reliable, and comparative data and information are a prerequisite for European policy to ensure a sound basis for transboundary and harmonised decision making. This is especially true for the field of environmental policy as a cross-cutting issue with num...read more

Chemicals, Water

Advisory Opinion on the Exposure Assessment for Substances based on Geo-Referenced Computer Models

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Due to different directives on the national and the European level it is necessary to analyse the fate of chemicals in the environment using exposure models. By combining the results of these models with ecotoxicity data the risk assessment is performed. Usually, this analysis is performed based on EUSES (EC (1996),EC (2003a)). It calculates the fate of chemicals based on generic scenarios. Generi...read more

Waste | Resources, Agriculture

Agronomic and Environmental Aspects of the Cultivation of Transgenic Herbicide Resistant Plants

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It it generally accepted in the international field of risk assessment research that the effects of transgenic organisms have to be assessed ‘case by case‘ and ‘step by step‘. While most physiological effects can be studied in laboratory and greenhouse, ecological, agronomic and economic effects are partly only assessable in field tests or commercial growing and by modelling. Information on these...read more

Air

Determination and Evaluation of Ambient Air Quality

- Manual of Ambient Air Monitoring in Germany -

Third revised Edition

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Measurement of air pollution emissions and ambient air quality is an essential instrument for air quality evaluation and control. In such measurements, pollutants are registered both at their place of origin (emissions) and at the place where they may affect people and/or the environment (immissions1). Both types of measurement complement each other and are essential for the implementation of air...read more

Economy | Consumption, Air

Development of a Test Method for an Investigation into Limiting the Emissions from Printers and Copiers within the Framework of Assigning the Environmental Label

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The emission behaviour with regard to dust, ozone and ⁠VOC⁠ (TVOC) of nine different hardcopy devices in combination with suitable air sampling and analysis procedures was investigated in different emission test chambers (two different 1 m³ - chambers and one 20 m³ - chamber). Air sampling and analysis for VOC were done by means of Tenax TA and subsequent thermal desorption (TDS) in...read more

Air

Joint report on air quality in the Tri-border region of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany in 2003 (former Black Triangle region)

Gemeinsamer Bericht zur Luftqualität im Dreiländereck der Tschechischen Republik, Polens und Deutschlands 2003 (ehemals Schwarzes Dreieck)

Spolecna zprava o kvalite ovzdusi v prihranici oblasti Ceske republiky, Polska a Nemecka c roce 2003 (byvala oblast Cerneho trojuhelniku)

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Wspolny raport o jakosci powietrza w trojgranicznym regionie Republiki Czeskiej, Polski i Niemeic w roku 2003 (byly region Czarnego Trojkata)About 15 years ago the tri-border region of the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany was called the Black Triangle (covering Northern Bohemia, part of Lower Silesia and Saxony) and was characterised by the highest air pollution in Europe. So it was necessary to...read more

Climate | Energy, Economy | Consumption, Air

Emissions trading in international civil aviation

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According to estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), international aviation contributes about 3.5% to global warming.1 If growth in aviation volume continues at the same rate as in the 1990s, when international aviation grew 4% annually, the contribution of international aviation to the greenhouse effect could, already in 2010, be higher than Germany's contribution to gl...read more