Soil is a key environmental compartment, determining the supply of crucial ecosystem services as well as supporting biodiversity below and above ground. In the last 15 years, substantial efforts have been made to incorporate the impacts on land due to production processes - from a life cycle...

The impact of various combinations of land use change, climate change and policy measures on the water-energy-food-environment nexus in the Sava river basin has been evaluated through 170 simulations with the LISFLOOD water resources model for 30- year periods. The LISFLOOD model was first...

The impact of various combinations of land use change, climate change and policy measures on the water-energy-food-environment nexus in the Sava river basin has been evaluated through 170 simulations with the LISFLOOD water resources model for 30- year periods. The LISFLOOD model was first...

This report explores in detail the land uses that are expected to be in direct competition for land (food, feed and energy) as a result of the EU bioenergy targets and considering the suitability characteristics of the land for these uses. The analysis is carried out per main crop group...

The definition of the Reference Scenario assumes full implementation of the Climate and Energy package. The legislation included within the Climate and Energy Package is reflective of the legally binding targets to ensure that the EU meets its climate and energy targets for 2020. This scenario...

The Cohesion policy for the programming period 2014-2020 is analyzed in terms of its likely land use and environmental impacts using the Land Use Modelling Platform (LUMP). This report describes in detail the process and the methodology by which the ex-ante impact assessment was made, and...

The Communication from the Commission on the Roadmap to Resource Efficient Europe (RERM) defines a set of milestones to illustrate what is required to put Europe on a path to resource efficiency and sustainable growth, thus contributing to a global economic transformation. The 2020 milestone for...

The Water Framework Directive requires the development and implementation of river basin management plans for improving the ecological status of freshwater bodies throughout Europe. The scientific community supports this process by developing decision-support tools for identifying the principal...

This report presents a modelling framework to develop indicators on soil erosion. The main focus is the soil erosion estimates in agricultural lands in the view of current monitoring and evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The factsheet of soil erosion indicator is an example of...

This document and its predecessor, The Remediated sites and brownfields. Success stories in Europe, were published at the initiative of EIONET NRC Soil, which established in 2015 an ad-hoc working group on contaminated sites and brownfields in Europe. The objective was to collect cases and...