Total Emission Model for Integrated Systems (TEMIS): user's guide for TEMIS version 2.0

The Oeko-Institut - a non-governmental, non-proft environmental research institute - started in 1987 a major research project on the environmental analysis of energy systems. Within this project, a computerized tool was developed, the so-called Total Emission Model for Integrated Systems (TEMIS in short). This model evaluates environmental effects of energy, transport, and material systems, i.e. air emissions (SO_2, NO_x, particulates), greenhouse gases (CO_2, CH_4, N_2O etc.), solid wastes, and land use (see OeKO/GhK 1989+1992 for details). TEMIS was developed to run on IBM/compatible PC systems. The intention of TEMIS is not to free decision-makers from their responsibility to value environmental aspects, but to support the decision-making process. Therefore, the model is strictly descriptive. The TEMIS database covers typical processes for energy, transport and material outputs which can be used for model calculations. But often, processes or systems in question may differ in efficiency, emission control, fuel type, costs etc. Hence, the model's database can be adapted to user's needs: new fuels, materials etc. can be integrated, fuel cycles changes, new processes added, and even new emission categories and residuals can be fully integrated. Furthermore, TEMIS covers environmental aspects which cannot be quantified: safety issues (accidents), ecological interference on a local scale (e.g. habitat deterioration), nonquantifiable aspects of solid wastes and land use. These are identified and expressed in terms of 'relative significance' for each resource used by energy, transport and material systems. The qualitative aspects - although often neglected - are an essential part of the environmental analysis, and an important factor for decision-making which integrates environmental aspects. Finally, TEMIS determines not only economic (internal) costs from capital, operation and fuel costs, but also external costs by monetizing air pollutants and greenhouse-gas emissions. The bases for the monetization can be either damage costs or control costs - the latter are used in TEMIS as default values if no user-specified values are applied. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: F99B1730 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman

Freisetzungsorientierte Forschungsprojekte in der Bundesrepublik Gen- und Biotechnologie - Schadstoffabbau, Schaedlingsbekaempfung, Pflanzen, Sicherheitsforschung

Copy held by FIZ Karlsruhe; available from UB/TIB Hannover / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman

Least-Cost Planning. Der Weg zum Umbau unseres Energieversorgungssystems

SIGLEAvailable from FIZ Karlsruhe / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

Evaluation des Projektes 'KlimaschutzRegion Hessisches Ried' Schlussbericht

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Entwicklung von Umweltindikatoren beim Monitoring im Zusammenhang mit gentechnisch veraenderten Pflanzen

SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RN 8908(2000,219) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Berlin (Germany)DEGerman

Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven der Atom- und Energiewirtschaft der DDR

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Verfahren zur Technikfolgenabschaetzung des Anbaus von Kulturpflanzen mit gentechnisch erzeugter Herbizidresistenz. T. 5 Evolutionsbiologische Argumente in der Risikodiskussion am Beispiel der transgenen herbizidresistenten Pflanzen

The Science Center Berlin publishes the reports and proceedings of the technology assessment. Vol 5 contains a report by Dr. Barbara Weber, Institute for Applied Ecology, which deals comprehensively with the arguments currently under public debate on possible risks from transgenic plants. This volume also contains an extended commentary by Dr. Arnd Heyer, Prof. Dr. Heinz Saedler and Prof. Dr. Lothar Willmitzer. Discussions during the TA-procedure about possible risks from transgenic plants have been partly summarized in volumes 2, 3 and 4. This volume is confined to arguments about 'evolutionary risks' and 'specific nature' of gene transfer. The latter - in particular as regards positional effects and disturbance of the genomic context - play a key role in the controversy over whether genetically modified plants are associated with specific risks and uncertainties as compared to conventionally bred plants. (orig.)With 2 appendicesAvailable from TIB Hannover: RA 8991(94-305) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman

Oekologisierung der Technik Ueber die Begruendbarkeit von Wertmassstaeben und daraus abzuleitender Zielvorstellungen fuer Technologiefolgenbewertung und Technologieentwicklung

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Umweltentlastung durch Kostenminimierung im Verkehr (Least Cost Planning im Verkehr). T. 1.2: Leitfaden: LCTP-Awendung in Kommunen

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Specific research on transgenic fish considering especially the biology of trout and salmon

SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RN 8422(2002,64) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Berlin (Germany)DEGerman