Europe. Articles
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Biodiversity monitoring in Europe
What is citizen science? The European Environment Agency (EEA) uses the following definition of citizen science: 'public involvement in projects or on-going programmes of scientific work by which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation' (1). A ...
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Land recycling in Europe
Land take, or the change from non-artificial to artificial land cover, reflects on-going and often conflicting claims on land. Some of the land that is 'taken' for urban development is covered with an impervious surface, which severely hampers ecosystem functioning and the related delivery of ecosystem services. However, when land is 'recycled', land that was developed in the past and has become ...
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Landscape fragmentation in Europe
Landscape fragmentation caused by transportation infrastructure and built-up areas has a number of ecological effects. It contributes significantly to the decline and loss of wildlife populations and to the increasing endangerment of species in Europe, for example through the dissection and isolation of populations, and affects the water regime and the recreational quality of landscapes. In spite ...
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Urban Sprawl in Europe
Europe is one of the most urbanised continents on earth, with approximately 75 % of its population living in urban areas. The urban future of Europe, however, is a matter of great concern. More than a quarter of the European Union's territory has now been directly affected by urban land use. By 2020, approximately 80 % of Europeans will be living in urban areas. In seven countries the ...
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Europe’s environment: the third assessment
This report, prepared by the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the environment ministers’ conference in Kiev in May 2003, is the third pan-European state of the environment report in the context of the Environmental Programme for Europe, under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The main aim of the report is to provide an overview of progress in ...
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Harmony Europe Is More Than Equipment
More Than Equipment Harmony Europe, located in Toulouse, France, has been the subsidiary office of Harmony Enterprises for the past ten years. Although they are a direct extension of Harmony Enterprises, Harmony Europe is responsible for a wide range of business outside of the continental United States. This office has done an incredible job with equipment sales, service, and special projects ...
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The EU Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe – Challenges and opportunities for Europe on the horizon
If Europeans continue using resources at their current speed, the equivalent of two planets will be needed by 2050 in order to sustain them, with no hope of a better quality of life. This is based on the strong assumption that the European Commission published its 2020 Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe. The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe proposes actions foreseen as necessary to ...
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10 messages for 2010 – cultural landscapes and biodiversity heritage
Key messages Diverse climatic conditions, varied geology and morphology and centuries of pre- and post-industrial land use created Europe's diverse mosaic of cultural and natural landscapes, rich in biodiversity. Europe's landscapes have become highly fragmented and homogenised, threatening their biodiversity and affecting their multifunctional role. By managing its multifunctional ...
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Woven Bag Shredder in Europe
Project Description Raw materials: Waste woven bags, cement bags, tonbags, snakeskin bags, fertilizer bags, plastic, etc. Application: Plastic recycling injection molding Major equipment: Single Shaft Shredder, Double Shaft ShredderAdvantage: 1.All-steel structure design, safe and reliable. 2.Unique feeding roller device, automatic feeding. 3.The supply of straw is smooth and the ...
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Trends and projections in Europe 2014
Reporting the latest progress towards climate and energy targets in Europe This 2014 edition of the annual European Environment Agency (EEA) 'Trends and projections' report provides an updated assessment of the progress of the European Union (EU) and European countries towards achieving their climate mitigation and energy targets. The report also supports and complements the annual report from ...
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Facilities management development in Europe
Facilities Management (FM) uses different approaches and has distinctive priorities in very particular country. There are widely divergent interpretations of the FM concept as it is used in various countries. FM is generally understood in the similar way, but it may use different strategies. There is as yet no consistent definition of the scope of FM activities. The study reported here concerns ...
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The maritime shipment of LNG to Europe: dynamics in markets, ships and terminal projects
The aim of this paper is to explore how the maritime shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe has developed over the last decade, given the growing usage of natural gas and increasing seaborne trade volume of LNG over the world. This paper presents the current situation of the LNG trade flows in Europe and also investigates the dynamics of the LNG shipping market, fleet development and ...
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Manifesto for a resource-efficient Europe
In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the EU has no choice but to go for the transition to a resource-efficient and ultimately regenerative circular economy. Our future jobs and competitiveness, as a major importer of resources, are dependent on our ability to get more added value, and achieve overall decoupling, through a systemic change in the use and recovery of ...
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Waste Prevention and Minimisation in Europe
Introduction In its 1996 Communication on the Review of the Community Strategy for Waste Management, the EU Commission stresses that prevention of waste and the minimisation of hazardous substances in waste must be the overall targets for a strategy on waste management of the Community. According to the Fifth Environmental Action Programme for the year 2000, management of waste generated ...
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The effectiveness of biotechnology policies in Europe
The present study investigates what policy mixes are the most effective in fostering biotechnology innovations. An input-output approach has been used with a mix of biotechnology policy instruments at the input side and biotechnology performance in science and commercialisation at the output side. Policy mixes that include both generic and biotech-specific policy instruments which support both ...
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State of Europe`s seas
Europe's seas are home to a wide variety of marine organisms and ecosystems, and are also an important source of food, raw materials, and energy for people. There is a range of EU policy goals related to managing the use of our seas' natural capital so we can keep on reaping its benefits. For example, there are EU policies related to managing fisheries and offshore energy production, and to ...
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Biogas Adoption Grows in Europe
In the continent’s quest for a carbon-neutral economy, adoption of anaerobic waste-to-energy technology has been surging When it comes to the energy in wastewater, for far too long the world has figuratively been throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In general, wastewater contains five times more energy that it takes to treat it. Although waste-to-energy (WtE) technology is readily ...
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Environmental policy integration in Europe
Article 6 of the European Community Treaty states that ‘environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the definition and implementation of the Community policies and activities (...) in particular with a view to promoting sustainable development’. Environmental policy integration (EPI) involves a continual process to ensure environmental issues are ...
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Towards a green economy in Europe
EU environmental policy targets and objectives 2010–2050 1 Moving towards a green economy in Europe Global economic crisis, soaring commodity prices and growing awareness of humanity's impact on the environment have pushed the 'green economy' concept into mainstream policy debate in recent years. In large part, this reflects a recognition that the prevailing model of economic growth ...
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Air quality in europe 2017
The Air quality in Europe report series from the EEA presents regular assessments of Europe's air pollutant emissions, concentrations and their associated impacts on health and the environment. Air pollution is a key environmental and social issue and, at the same time, it is a complex problem posing multiple challenges in terms of management and mitigation of harmful pollutants. Air ...
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