… Monitoring and assessment The federal and state governments regularly collect data on the North Sea and Baltic Sea using various monitoring methods. This helps to assess … countries Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, species, habitats and communities, human activities, selected pressures and the climate and geomorphology are described …

… Water body structure last update on 16.04.2012 Classification of quality of the water body structure A classification of quality of the water body structure (see table below) developed by the Working Group of the Federal States on Water Issues (LAWA) describes a change in …

… last update on 11.05.2012 Circulatory diseases An excessive amount of sound, whether in terms of intensity or of duration, can have lasting adverse effects on health or cause physiological damage. Sound has an effect on the whole organism, inasmuch as it triggers stress reactions (extra-aural effects). … due to daytime noise exposure. The results of the research showed that the human organism reacts more sensitively to noise when at rest during the night than …

… calculation methods for determining stack heights and for dispersion calculations. The calculation programs BESTAL (BESMIN, BESMAX) and AUSTAL are exemplary implementations of these specifications. They are provided free of charge by the Federal Environment Agency. last update on …

… Risk management in river basins Emissions to air, water and soil and the number of accidents at industrial facilities due to shortcomings in accident prevention had taken on alarming proportions by the 1970s. UBA addressed the problem and in the years since then has formulated a comprehensive risk …

… international conventions provide relevant provisions on soil protection, namely the “ United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries … Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa ” (UNCCD) of 1994, the “ Convention on Biological Diversity ” (CBD) of 1992 and the “ United Nations … objective "land degradation neutral word" for the topics - erosion, sealing by human settlement, and pollution by industry -, and recommends options for …