The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive concerns the collection, treatment and discharge of urban waste water and the treatment and discharge of waste water from certain industrial sectors. The objective of the Directive is to protect the environment from the adverse effects of the above mentioned waste water discharges. This series contains time series of spatial and tabular data covering Agglomerations, Discharge Points, and Treatment Plants.
The Floods Directive (FD) was adopted in 2007 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32007L0060). The purpose of the FD is to establish a framework for the assessment and management of flood risks, aiming at the reduction of the adverse consequences for human health, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activity associated with floods in the European Union. ‘Flood’ means the temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water. This shall include floods from rivers, mountain torrents, Mediterranean ephemeral water courses, and floods from the sea in coastal areas, and may exclude floods from sewerage systems. This reference spatial dataset, reported under the Floods Directive, includes the areas of potential significant flood risk (APSFR), as they were lastly reported by the Member States to the European Commission, and the Units of Management (UoM).
This metadata refers to the whole content of GISCO reference database, which contains both public datasets (also available for the general public through http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata) and datasets to be used only internally by the EEA (typically, but not only, GISCO datasets at 1:100k).
This project aims at analysing the influence of competing national and international bureaucracies on the fragmentation of the international forest regime complex (IFRC). Its objectives are: - describing the political dimension of fragmentation of the IFRC programme- explaining the political dimension of fragmentation based on the model of bureaucratic politics- analysing the steering consequences resulting from fragmentation - trans-disciplinary design of solutions for coping with political aspects of fragmentationBuilding on the bureaucratic politics approach these objectives will be pursued by testing the linking hypothesis: Interest and influence of the bureaucracies cause a fragmented programme of the IFRC. This programme supports the goal of profitable timber production but keeps the decision about biodiversity and CO2 sequestration open hindering the effective steering by the IFRC. The project develops an analytical framework consisting of the following independent variables: competing national and competing international bureaucracies, elected politicians, national and international non-state actors and media discourses. The fragmentation of the political programme of the IFRC is the overall dependent variable. This project will analyse the influence of bureaucracies and their coalitions on fragmentation at the international level as well as in national case studies in Sweden, Poland and Germany. The other independent variables will be covered by sub-projects 2, 3 and 4. The findings will be linked to the other political and to the economic and technic-ecological sub projects in order to contribute to the multi-disciplinary description and explanation of fragmentation and its steering consequences.
This series of data provides information on how much financial, capacity building and technology support the EU Member States and other countries have either planned, committed, or provided to developing countries in relation to climate change mitigation or adaptation. The datasets holds further details on the provided support, e.g., the recipient of support, the financial instrument, the funding source, the concrete projects which benefited or the targeted sector. These datasets are being collected under Article 19 of the Governance Regulation 2018/1999. The Regulation aims to help the EU meet its 2030 climate and energy targets by setting common rules for planning, reporting and monitoring. The Regulation also ensures that EU planning and reporting are synchronised with the ambition cycles under the Paris Agreement.
In unserem Vorhaben soll der Gehalt von Brom (Bry) und Iod (Iy) in der unteren und mittleren Stratosphäre bestimmt werden. Brom-Verbindungen sind für ca. 30% des Ozonverlusts in der Stratosphäre verantwortlich und damit ist eine regelmäßige Vermessung des stratosphärischen Bry angezeigt. Direkte Messungen in der mittlerenStratosphäre wurden aber seit 2011 nicht mehr durchgeführt. Zudem finden wir bei unseren jüngeren, flugzeuggetragenen Messungen von Bry (an Bord der NASA Global Hawk und des HALO Forschungsflugzeugs) in der tropsichen Tropopausenregion (TTL) und unteren Stratosphäre (UT/LS) etwa 2-3 ppt mehr Bry als aus lang- (Halone), mittel- (CH3Br) und kurzlebigen Bromverbindungen (VSLS) sowie deren Abbauprodukten zu erwarten ist. Die Gründe hierfür sind derzeit unklar. Unser Ziel ist es, die Messzeitreihe von Bry in der unteren und mittleren Stratosphäre wiederaufzunehmen und die entsprechenden Trends zu evaluieren. Insbesondere wollen wir untersuchen, ob die erhöhten Konzentrationen von Bry in der TTL mit Bry in der Stratosphäre kompatibel sind und was die Gründe für mögliche Differenzen sind. In Bezug of Iy weisen unsere früherenBeobachtungen auf Konzentrationen unterhalb der Nachweisgrenze hin, aber auch diese Untersuchungen liegen mehr als eine Dekade zurück. Neuere Arbeiten schlagen vor, dass die Bildung von höheren Iodoxiden zu einer Revision der bisher angenommenen Photochemie von Iod in der Stratosphäre führt, so dass ein erneuertes Interesse anstratosphärischem Iod besteht. Mit begrenztem zusätzlichem Aufwand wollen wir hier auch den Iy Gehalt (oder die entsprechenden Höchstgrenzen) in der Stratosphäre vermessen. Die Messungen sollen von einem Höhenforschungsballon (Steighöhe 30-38 km) aus mittels etablierter spektroskopischer Methoden in Sonnen-Okkultationsgeometrie durchgeführt werden. Es sind zwei Messflüge für Sommer 2021 von Kiruna, Schweden, und für Sommer 2022 von Timmins, Canada, aus geplant. Die Flüge und Kampagnen selbst werden durch die EU Infrastruktur HEMERA gefördert.
Dreissena polymorpha was entering Lake Erken in the middle of the 1970-ies. The zebra mussel developed very rapidly and soon covered the hardbottoms of the lake. Not until 1992 the mussel was investigated more thouroughly by scubadiver sampling in order to estimate the size, biomass and distribution of the mussel in Lake Erken. This first study is now comingto an end and a special investigation ofthe filtering capacity of the mussel would be worthwile to perform. The filtering capacity of the zebra mussel to further elucidate its role in Lake Erken. The experiments are aiming to describe the role of the zebra mussel in Lake Erken and its effects on the water quality. Is the filtering of the mussel an efficient mechanism to decrease the number of particles in the water? Is there a rapid nutrient release, which stimulates new growth of phytoplankton or periphyton? The experiments should be done in cylinders in situ and in laboratory containers. Thefiltering capacity should be studied in the laboratory at different temperaturesranging from 4 to 25 C. In situ studies could be run in the lake in the temperature interval from 10 to (hopefully) 22 C. This would be from early June to late July in Lake Erken. During the weekly experiments inorganic and organic suspended matter as well as chlorophyll are determined every day. The nutrient conditions are followed by measurements of phosphate and ammonium. Each experiment is runwith three parallells and with controls lacking mussels.
In 15 Laendern (Australien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Grossbritannien, Japan, Neuseeland, Niederlande, Norwegen, Oesterreich, Portugal, Schweden, Spanien, Tuerkei, Ungarn und USA) werden Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung von Antwortskalen durchgefuehrt. Es sollen gleichabstaendige Skalen konstruiert werden, die in persoenlichen und telefonischen Befragungen eingesetzt werden koennen. Zukuenftig soll von den beteiligten Forschern und Forscherinnen zumindest eine Frage zur allgemeinen Laermbelaestigung in jede Untersuchung aufgenommen und jeweils im selben Antwortformat beantwortet werden. So sollen Ergebnisse demnaechst auch international besser vergleichbar sein.
In recent years science has taken an increased interest in mineralization processes in tropical soils in particular under minimal tillage operations. Plant litter quality and management strongly affect mineralization-nitrification processes in soil and hence the fate of nitrogen in ecosystems and the environment. Plant secondary metabolites like lignin and polyphenols are poorly degradable and interact with proteins (protein binding capacity) and hence protect them from microbial attack. Nitrification, a microbiological process, directly and indirectly influences the efficiency of recovery of N in the vegetation as well as the loss of N (through denitrification and leaching) causing environmental pollution to water bodies and contributes to global warming (e.g. the greenhouse gas N2O is emitted as a by-product of nitrification and denitrification). Nitrifiers comprise a relatively narrow species diversity (at least as known to date) and are generally thought to be sensitive to low soil pH and stress. Despite these properties nitrification occurs in acid tropical soils with high levels of aluminium and manganese. Thus the main objective of the project will be the identification of micro-organisms and mechanisms responsible for mineralization-nitrification processes in acid tropical soils and the influence of long-term litter input of different chemical qualities and minimal tillage options. The project will include the use of stable isotopes (15N, 13C), mass spectrometry, gas chromatography (CO2, N2O), biochemical methods (PLFA) and molecular biology (16s rRNA., PCR, DGGE)
Background and Objectives: The project area is located in the Ashanti Region of Ghana / West Africa in the transition zone of the moist semideciduous forest and tropical savannah zone. Main land use in this region is subsistence agriculture with large fallow areas. As an alternative land-use, forest plantations are under development by the Ghanaian wood processing company DuPaul Wood Treatment Ltd. Labourers from the surrounding villages are employed as permanent or casual plantation workers. Within three forest plantation projects of approximately 6,000 ha, DuPaul offers an area of 164 ha (referred to as Papasi Plantation) - which is mainly planted with Teak (Tectona grandis) - for research purposes. In return, the company expects consultations to improve the management for sustainable timber and pole production with exotic and native tree species. Results: In a first research approach, the Papasi Plantation was assessed in terms of vegetation classification, timber resources (in qualitative and quantitative terms) and soil and site conditions. A permanent sampling plot system was established to enable long-term monitoring of stand dynamics including observation of stand response to silvicultural treatments. Site conditions are ideally suited for Teak and some stands show exceptionally good growth performances. However, poor weed management and a lack of fire control and silvicultural management led to high mortality and poor growth performance of some stands, resulting in relative low overall growth averages. In a second step, a social baseline study was carried out in the surrounding villages and identified landowner conflicts between some villagers and DuPaul, which could be one reason for the fire damages. However, the study also revealed a general interest for collaboration in agroforestry on DuPaul land on both sides. Thirdly, a silvicultural management concept was elaborated and an improved integration of the rural population into DuPaul's forest plantation projects is already initiated. If landowner conflicts can be solved, the development of forest plantations can contribute significantly to the economic income of rural households while environmental benefits provide long-term opportunities for sustainable development of the region. Funding: GTZ supported PPP-Measure, Foundation
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