A standardized European trapping protocol – perspectives for long-term studies

COVID-19 Intervention Scenarios for a Long-term Disease Management

Background The first outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was successfully restrained in many countries around the world by means of a severe lockdown. Now, we are entering the second phase of the pandemics in which the spread of the virus needs to be contained within the limits that national health systems can cope with. This second phase of the epidemics is expected to last until a...

Mid-term Perspectives for the Western/Central European Electricity Market

The restructuring process of electricity markets in Europe started in the late 1990s and is still going on. This process was triggered by the Directive 96/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity (EC, 1997). This article will analyse the recent developments in the liberalised Western and Central European electricity marke...

Long-term particulate matter exposure and mortality: a review of European epidemiological studies

BACKGROUND Several studies considered the relation between long-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) and total mortality, as well as mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Our aim was to provide a comprehensive review of European epidemiological studies on the issue. METHODS We searched the Medline database for epidemiological studies on air pollution and health outcomes ...

Long-term Care in the European Union

Integrated Dialogue under Long-term Perspectives as the Basis for Adaptive Water Management : a Protocol of Extended Sustainability

The inherent uncertainty of the futures requires an adaptive water management (AWM) which can best be achieved by an integrated dialogue (ID) among water scientists, policy makers and stakeholders. To develop proposals of extended sustainability the regional climate vulnerability is to be approached through gradually-evaluated models. This paper proposes a protocol that supports AWM and ID, inc...