Macro-environmental policy: principles and design

Industrial Ecolog

Bodegraven-Noord: alternatieve ontwikkelingsmogelijkheden voor een veenweidegebied

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Instruments for effective global climate policy: the carbon deposit system

Industrial Ecolog

Physical analysis of SARS-CoV-2 routes: from primary production and emissions to exposures and COVID-19 infection

Measures in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic were based on rough ideas regarding transmission routes of pathogens. Quantified models of physical transmission routes are mostly lacking, a gap to be filled. Vaccines and medicines, important, are not studied here. We first survey main routes, from primary production in the alveoli and intestines to emissions, environmental routes, to exposure and alveolar infection. Next, specific routes are modelled, mostly at a preliminary state, open to systematic improvement. Starting from a standardized emitter, modelling results show extreme differences in potential exposure, in a range covering up to 4 orders of magnitude. The outcomes are pathogen-specific, already different between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza. Extreme exposures may result in smaller spaces; with lower ventilation rates; with a high density of emitting persons per m3; who stay there for several hours; and visitors staying more than a few minutes. In spaces where a build-up of concentrations is low, exposures are low, lowest in open air situations. A main conclusion for the next pandemic is that a quantified model can give strong guidance on where measures are primarily due. For SARS-CoV-2, ventilation can be improved short-term. Longer-term, effective ventilation rules and adaptation of buildings may reduce high exposures substantially.Industrial Ecolog

Forecasting the future sustainability of technology choices: qualitative predictive validity of models as a complement to quantitative uncertainty

Industrial Ecolog

Waarschijnlijkheidsstudie beleidsresultaten zwerfafval

VakpublicatieInstitute of Environmental Science

Towards optimal short, medium and long term climate policy instrumentation

Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)European Union FP7 ENV.2012.6.1-4: Exploiting the full potential of economic instruments to achieve the EU’s key greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets for 2030 and 2050 under grant agreement n° 308680Industrial Ecolog

Milieueffekten van huishoudelijke verpakkingen. Deel II: Bijlagen

VakpublicatieInstitute of Environmental Science