OSPAR Intersessional Correspondence Group – Cumulative Effects (ICG-C), part of OSPAR commission Environmental Impact of Human Activities (EIHA), is seeking for common approaches on (cross-border) cumulative effects. At the OSPAR ICG-C meeting of 12-13 December 2012 (Copenhagen), three cumulative effects assessment (CEA) methods have been discussed...
With the aim to link tidal and subtidal water level changes to human interventions, 70 years of water level data for the Rhine–Meuse tidal river network is analysed using a variety of statistical methods. Using a novel parameterization of probability density functions, mean high and low water levels are examined, and extreme water levels are invest...
IMARES Wageningen UR volgt de jaarlijkse ontwikkeling van bodemdieren in de geulen in een voor menselijke activiteiten gesloten gebied (referentiegebied: Schild en Boschwad) en vergelijkt dit met een gebied waar zulke activiteiten wel toegestaan zijn (controlegebied: Zuidoost-Lauwers en Spruit). Om de ontwikkeling van het referentiegebied te volgen...
Hoe creatief om te gaan met de toenemende druk door de menselijke populatie en de mogelijke belangenverstrengelingen van verschillende belangenhouders die dat met zich meebrengt, bv. door systemen meerdere functies tegelijk te laten vervullen. Het KB IV-programma “groenblauwe ruimte” beoogt te onderzoeken hoe, door goed gebruik te maken van de half...
Recently, it gets broadly acknowledged that the release of heat due to anthropogenic activities (anthropogenic heating) is a major component of the urban energy budget. Anthropogenic heating is therefore one of the major causes of the additional heating of cities as compared to the surrounding rural areas, commonly known as the Urban Heat Island ef...
Two aims of ODEMM WP4 , “Management Strategies” is to: - Develop a range of realistically feasible management strategies or options for these activities, using different types of measures and tools, to achieve regional Operational Objectives; - Apply a formal evaluation of these management strategies using a Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) too...
In order to assess the suitability of locations on the Central and Southern North Sea for wind parks present sea use functions should also be taken in account. These sea use functions comprise shipping, oil and gas extraction, fisheries, cables and pipelines, military activities, sand extraction, radar interference and nature conservation. Informat...
Wanneer de betekenis van de natuur van Nederland in internationaal verband ter sprake wordt gebracht, dan is de eerste reactie vaak een smalende, die van een meewarige glimlach. Zo'n klein landje, overbevolkt, zo zeer onder de voet gelopen, daar kan die toch niets voorstellen? We hebben in ons land toch geen wolven, elanden of beren? Denk eens aan ...
Aim of this study was to assess the present impact of water quality as a consequence of human activities on local coastal ecosystems in Singapore in order to assess its relevance in relation to marine infrastructure developments as reclamation and associated dredging. Water quality aspects in this report are delimited to chemical water quality as h...
The expansion of human activities due to the increase in human population outside protected areas is reducing the range of elephant. This range reduction occurs when elephant habitats are cleared for more farms and settlements. This causes fragmentation of the elephant range, which changes the elephant’ distribution, movement patterns, intensity of...
