CORDIS Archive

Environment Projects by Workprogramme sub-area:

• Research into the natural environment, environmental quality and global change
  • Climate change and impact on natural resources
    • Basic processes of the climate system
    • The climate system in the past
    • Climate variability, simulation of climate and prediction of climate change
    • Impact of climate changes and other environmental factors on natural resources
      • European water resources
      • Agriculture, forests and the natural environment
      • Land resources and the threat of desertification and soil erosion in Europe
  • Atmospheric physics and chemistry, interactions with the biosphere and mechanisms of environmental change impacts
    • Atmospheric physics and chemistry
      • Stratospheric chemistry and depletion of the ozone layer
      • Tropospheric physics and chemistry
    • Biospheric processes
      • The functioning of ecosystems
      • Alteration of processes as a result of UV-B radiation
      • Biodiversity and environmental change

• Environmental technologies
  • Instruments, techniques and methods for monitoring the environment
    • Troposphere
    • Waste water
    • Biosensors
    • Coast monitoring
    • Stratosphere
    • Archeometry
  • Technologies and methods for assessing risks to and protecting and rehabilitating the environment
    • Methods of estimating and managing risks to the environment and to humans
      • Risks to human health
      • Risks to the environment
      • Industrial safety
    • Analysis of the life-cycle of industrial and synthetic products
    • Technologies to protect and rehabilitate the environment
      • Clean technologies
      • Emission abatement
      • Recycling technologies
      • Organic waste
      • Dangerous waste
      • Rehabilitation of contaminated sites
    • Technologies to protect and rehabilitate European cultural heritage
  • Technologies to forecast, prevent and reduce natural risks
    • Hydrological and hydrogeological risks
    • Seismic risk
    • Volcanic risk
    • Forest fires

• Space techniques applied to environmental monitoring and research
  • Methodological research and pilot projects
    • Methodological research
    • Pilot projects
  • Research and development work for potential future operational activities
  • Centre for earth observation

• Human dimensions of environmental change
  • Socio-economic causes and effects of environmental change
  • Economic and social responses to environmental problems - towards sustainable development
  • Integration of scientific knowledge and of economic and societal considerations into the formulation of environment policies
  • Sustainable development and technological change
    
    
• European Network for Research into Global Change (implemented jointly with MAST & INCO)

For information on Environment and Climate projects over the period 1990-1994, go to the CORDIS RTD-Projects database and select ENV 1C on the Programme acronym list, and proceed with the search.

For information on Environment and Climate research launched under the Fifth RTD Framework Programme (1998-2002) visit the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development website.

Click here to access exploitable Environment and Climate research results, or browse the CORDIS RTD-Results database for EU RTD research outputs in general.