Glossary

European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Assessment Report

European Agricultural Supply modelling developed by INRA

Optimization model for the spatial distribution and size of bioenergy plants, pulp and paper mills and sawmills

Universität für Bodenkultur Wien/University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (www.boku.ac.at)

Common Agricultural Policy

Common Agricultural Policy Regional Impact

Assessment of the European Terrestrial Carbon Balance

Climate Change: Terrestrial Adaptation & Mitigation in Europe

Clean Development Mechanism

A general model of plant-soil nutrient cycling

Conference of Parties

Coordination of Information on the Environment

Chemicals, Runoff, and Erosion from Agricultural Management Systems

conditional value at risk

European Commission Directorate-General Environment

European Commission Directorate-General Environment

European Commission Director General for Research

an international programme of biodiversity science. www.diversitas-international.org

Denitrification-Decomposition

European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies

European Climate Change Programme

European Climate Change Program

Energy Modelling Forum

Ecological Niche Factor Analysis

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. www.epa.gov

Environmental Policy Integrated Climate Model

Realising the Economic Potential of Sustainable Resources - Bioproducts from Non-food Crops. http://epobio.net/

European Union

European Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model

Farm Accountancy Data Network

Farm Optimization System

Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model

A carbon budget model of managed forests and adjacent forestry sector

the Seventh Framework Programme by the European Commission

Forest Stewardship Council

Greenhouse Gas - Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies

Global Environment Outlook

Global Forest Model

greenhouse gas

Groundwater Loading Effects on Agricultural Management Systems

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF WATER DYNAMICS AND FOREST GROWTH

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System

Homogeneous Response Unit

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

International Human Dimensions Programme

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (www.iiasa.ac.at)

Integrated Sink Enhancement Assessment

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

Intergovernmental panel on climate change

Joint implementation

Joanneum Research (www.joanneum.at)

Joint Research Center, http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm

Long-term Cooperative Action

Land Use, Land-use Change and Forestry

Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impact

The Finnish Forest Research Institute

National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (www.nies.go.jp)

Nitrogen oxides emissions from European Forest Ecosystems

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

A forest model, which estimates biomass, dead wood, harvest yields and costs for different forestry scenarios (thinning, species, climate change) at plot level to regional scale.

Positive Agricultural Sector Model Austria

Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany (http://www.pik-potsdam.de)

Prospective Outlook on Long-term energy Systems

Price-driven and agent-based simulation of markets energy system models

A 3-year European Union project "Prediction of Regional scenarios and Uncertainties for Defining European Climate change risks and Effects" http://prudence.dmi.dk/

Regional Air Pollution Information and Simulation

regional climate model

Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling – Linking European Science and Society

Response Strategies to Climatic Change in Management of European Forests. http://www.efi.int/portal/completed_projects/silvistrat/

Special Report on Emission scenarios

watershed-scale model

Simulator for Water Resources in Rural Basins

European Commission Directorate-General Energy and Transport

Tsukuba Biosphere Model

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

World Climate Research Programme

A soil carbon model, which calculates the amount of soil carbon, changes in soil carbon and heterotrophic soil respiration. Applications include land use and climate change effects on soil carbon, and greenhouse gas inventories. www.environment.fi/syke/yasso