Warren C. Sanderson, Erich Striessnig, Wolfgang Schöpp, Markus Amann,
Over the past decade, India has experienced rapid economic growth along with increases in levels of air pollution. Our goal is to examine how alternative policies for air pollution abatement affect well-being there. In particular, we estimate the effects of policies to reduce the levels of ambient fine particulates (PM2.5), which are especially harmful to human health, on well-being, quantified using the United Nations' human development index (HDI). Two of the three dimensions of this index are based ...
Tópico(s): Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
2013 - American Chemical Society | Environmental Science & Technology
Wolfgang Schöpp, Markus Amann, J. Cofała, C. Heyes, Zbigniew Klimont,
The RAINS (Regional Air Pollution Information and Simulation) model (Alcamo et al., 1990. The RAINS Model of Acidification. Science and Strategies in Europe. Kluwer, Dordrecht) was developed at IIASA as an integrated assessment tool to assist policy advisors in evaluating options for reducing acid rain. Such models help to build consistent frameworks for the analysis of abatement strategies. They combine scientific findings in the various fields relevant to strategy development (economy, technology, ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change Policy and Economics
1998 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Modelling & Software
Wilfried Winiwarter, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Zbigniew Klimont, Wolfgang Schöpp, Markus Amann,
We describe a consistent framework developed to quantify current and future anthropogenic emissions of nitrous oxide and the available technical abatement options by source sector for 172 regions globally. About 65% of the current emissions derive from agricultural soils, 8% from waste, and 4% from the chemical industry. Low-cost abatement options are available in industry, wastewater, and agriculture, where they are limited to large industrial farms. We estimate that by 2030, emissions can be reduced ...
Tópico(s): Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
2017 - IOP Publishing | Environmental Research Letters
Vijay S. Limaye, Wolfgang Schöpp, Markus Amann,
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5, diameter ≤2.5 μm) is implicated as the most health-damaging air pollutant. Large cohort studies of chronic exposure to PM2.5 and mortality risk are largely confined to areas with low to moderate ambient PM2.5 concentrations and posit log-linear exposure-response functions. However, levels of PM2.5 in developing countries such as India are typically much higher, causing unknown health effects. Integrated exposure-response functions for high PM2.5 exposures encompassing ...
Tópico(s): Energy and Environment Impacts
2018 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Fabian Wagner, Wolfgang Schöpp, Markus Amann,
National emission ceilings are a policy instrument to reduce adverse environmental impacts of transboundary air pollution. Such ceilings for SO2, NOx, NH3 and VOC are established, for example, in the Gothenburg Protocol of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (UNECE, 1999) and the National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive of the European Union (EC, 2001a, EC, 2001b). They prescribe for each pollutant a fixed upper limit on emissions for a specific year. Flexibility in achieving ...
Tópico(s): Air Quality and Health Impacts
2013 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Environmental Management
Peter Rafaj, Wolfgang Schöpp, Peter Ruß, C. Heyes, Markus Amann,
Tópico(s): Air Quality and Health Impacts
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Daniela Hauer, Florian Weis, Patrizia Campolongo, Mirjam Schopp, Andrés Beiras-Fernández, Claudia Strewe, Markus Giehl, Roland Tóth, Erich Kilger, Gustav Schelling,
Background: Endocannabinoids (ECs) are rapidly acting immune-modulatory lipid-signaling molecules that are important for adaptation to stressful and aversive situations. They are known to interact with glucocorticoids and other stress-responsive systems. Maladaptation to acute or chronic stress represents a major risk factor for the development of psychiatric disorders. In the present study, we administered stress doses of hydrocortisone in a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind ...
Tópico(s): Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
2012 - De Gruyter | Reviews in the Neurosciences
Sanna Syri, Markus Amann, Wolfgang Schöpp, C. Heyes,
Tropospheric ozone concentrations regarded as harmful for human health are frequently encountered in Central Europe in summertime. Although ozone formation generally results from precursors transported over long distances, in urban areas local effects, such as reactions due to nearby emission sources, play a major role in determining ozone concentrations. Europe-wide mapping and modeling of population exposure to high ozone concentrations is subject to many uncertainties, because small-scale phenomena ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
2001 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Pollution
Michael Neuß, T. Schau, Akihiro Isotani, Markus Pilz, Maren Schöpp, Christian Butter,
This single-center study was performed to analyze the effect of an increased transvalvular gradient after the MitraClip (MC) (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois) procedure on patient outcome during follow-up.Percutaneous transcatheter repair of the mitral valve with the MC device has been established as a novel technique for patients with severe mitral regurgitation and high surgical risk. This study investigated the influence of an increased pressure gradient after MC implantation on the ...
Tópico(s): Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
2017 - Elsevier BV | КАРДИОЛОГИЯ УЗБЕКИСТАНА
Wilfried Winiwarter, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Wolfgang Schöpp, Antti Tohka, Fabian Wagner, Markus Amann,
The GAINS model allows for estimation of costs and potentials for greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation by individual GHGs. In this article, the GAINS model is used to assess mitigation potentials for non-CO2 GHGs in 2020 for all countries covered in the Annex-I of the Kyoto protocol. Mitigation measures for methane, nitrous oxide or fluorinated gases and their costs are identified and mitigation potentials and costs are compared with other available studies. Differences in the structure of economic sectors ...
Tópico(s): Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
Fei Liu, Zbigniew Klimont, Qiang Zhang, J. Cofała, Lijian Zhao, Hong Huo, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Wolfgang Schöpp, Robert Sander, Bo Zheng, Chaopeng Hong, Kebin He, Markus Amann, C. Heyes,
Strong economic growth in China has fueled development of cities where increase in energy demand and transportation lead to severe air pollution. The cities contribute also a significant share of the national greenhouse gas emissions. We identify strong synergies between air quality and climate relevant measures that would allow improving cost-efficiency of air pollution policies. In order to help local policy makers to identify viable and efficient solutions, we developed a city-scale emission ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Impact and Sustainability
2013 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cleaner Production
Peter Rafaj, Gregor Kiesewetter, Timur Gül, Wolfgang Schöpp, J. Cofała, Zbigniew Klimont, Pallav Purohit, C. Heyes, Markus Amann, Jens Borken, Laura Cozzi,
Air pollution is linked with many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Strategies aiming at the improved air quality interact directly with climate mitigation targets, access to clean energy services, waste management, and other aspects of socio-economic development. Continuation of current policies in the key emitting sectors implies that a number of sustainability goals will likely not be met within the next two decades: emissions of air pollutants would cause 40% more premature ...
Tópico(s): Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
2018 - Elsevier BV | Global Environmental Change
Markus Amann, Gregor Kiesewetter, Wolfgang Schöpp, Zbigniew Klimont, Wilfried Winiwarter, J. Cofała, Peter Rafaj, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Adriana Gomez-Sabriana, C. Heyes, Pallav Purohit, Jens Borken, Fabian Wagner, Robert Sander, Hilde Fagerli, Á. Nyíri, Laura Cozzi, Claudia Pavarini,
Over the last decades, energy and pollution control policies combined with structural changes in the economy decoupled emission trends from economic growth, increasingly also in the developing world. It is found that effective implementation of the presently decided national pollution control regulations should allow further economic growth without major deterioration of ambient air quality, but will not be enough to reduce pollution levels in many world regions. A combination of ambitious policies ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
2020 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
Gregor Kiesewetter, Jens Borken, Wolfgang Schöpp, C. Heyes, Philippe Thunis, Bertrand Bessagnet, Etienne Terrenoire, A. Gsella, Markus Amann,
Abstract. NO2 concentrations at the street level are a major concern for urban air quality in Europe and have been regulated under the EU Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution. Despite the legal requirements, limit values are exceeded at many monitoring stations with little or no improvement in recent years. In order to assess the effects of future emission control regulations on roadside NO2 concentrations, a downscaling module has been implemented in the GAINS integrated assessment model. The module ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
2014 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Gregor Kiesewetter, Jens Borken, Wolfgang Schöpp, C. Heyes, Philippe Thunis, Bertrand Bessagnet, Etienne Terrenoire, Hilde Fagerli, Á. Nyíri, Markus Amann,
Abstract. Despite increasing emission controls, particulate matter (PM) has remained a critical issue for European air quality in recent years. The various sources of PM, both from primary particulate emissions as well as secondary formation from precursor gases, make this a complex problem to tackle. In order to allow for credible predictions of future concentrations under policy assumptions, a modelling approach is needed that considers all chemical processes and spatial dimensions involved, from ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
2015 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Anna Altman, Markus Amann, G. Klaassen, Andrzej Ruszczyński, Wolfgang Schöpp,
The problem of reducing SO2 emissions in Europe is considered. The costs of reduction are assumed to be uncertain and are modeled by a set of possible scenarios. A mean-variance model of the problem is formulated and a specialized computational procedure is developed. The approach is applied to the trans-boundary air pollution model with real-world data.
Tópico(s): Vehicle emissions and performance
1996 - Elsevier BV | European Journal of Operational Research
Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Pallav Purohit, Markus Amann, I. Bertok, Peter Rafaj, Wolfgang Schöpp, Jens Borken,
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are synthetically produced compounds primarily used for cooling purposes and with strong global warming properties. In this paper, we analyze the global abatement costs for achieving the substantial reductions in HFC consumption agreed in the Kigali Amendment (KA) of the Montreal Protocol from October 2016. We estimate that compliance with the KA is expected to remove 39 Pg CO2eq or 61% of global baseline HFC emissions over the entire period 2018–2050. The marginal cost of ...
Tópico(s): Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
2017 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Science & Policy
Yun Shu, Jingnan Hu, Shaohui Zhang, Wolfgang Schöpp, Wei Tang, Jin‐Hong Du, J. Cofała, Gregor Kiesewetter, Robert Sander, Wilfried Winiwarter, Zbigniew Klimont, Jens Borken, Markus Amann, Haisheng Li, Youjiang He, Jinmin Zhao, Deyuan Xie,
City clusters play an important role in air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction in China, primarily due to their high fossil energy consumption levels. The "2 + 26" Cities, i.e., Beijing, Tianjin and 26 other perfectures in northern China, has experienced serious air pollution in recent years. We employ the Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies model adapted to the "2 + 26" Cities (GAINS-JJJ) to evaluate the impacts of structural adjustments in four major sectors, ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
2022 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Environmental Management
Markus Amann, L. Hordijk, G. Klaassen, Wolfgang Schöpp, Lene Tolstrup Sørensen,
Acid rain abatement in Europe are currently being discussed in view of the expiration of the Helsinki Protocol on SO2 emission reduction. The changing energy situation in Eastern European countries is expected to have an influence on the deposition pattern in Europe. The paper presents a consistent energy scenario for Eastern European countries and compares optimal strategies to reduce SO2 emissions. These strategies are based on runs with the RAINS model in which environmental targets have been ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change Policy and Economics
1992 - Elsevier BV | Energy Policy
Jun Liu, Gregor Kiesewetter, Zbigniew Klimont, J. Cofała, C. Heyes, Wolfgang Schöpp, Tong Zhu, Guiying Cao, Adriana Gómez-Sanabria, Robert Sander, Fei Guo, Qiang Zhang, Thanh Binh Nguyen, I. Bertok, Peter Rafaj, Markus Amann,
Air pollution is one of the most harmful consequences of China's rapid economic development and urbanization. Particularly in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) regions, particulate matter concentrations have consistently exceeded the national air quality standards. Over the last years, China implemented ambitious measures to reduce emissions from the power, industry and transportation sectors, with notable success during the 11th and 12th Five Year Plan (FYP) periods. However, such strategies appear ...
Tópico(s): Vehicle emissions and performance
2019 - Elsevier BV | Environment International
Júlia Michels, Jan Meis, Noemi Sturm, Florian Bornitz, Selina von Schumann, Aline Weis, Benjamin Neetz, Martina Bentner, Johanna Forstner, Nicola Litke, Michel Wensing, Stella Erdmann, Thomas Grobe, Timm Frerk, Axel Kempa, Claus Neurohr, Armin Schneider, Michael Müller, Felix J.F. Herth, Joachim Szécsényi, Franziska Trudzinski, Franziska Trudzinski, G. Iberl, B Müller, Elena Biehler, Thomas Fleischhhauer, Gerhard Fuchs, Markus Qreini, Janina Schubert-Haack, Anja Klingenberg, Alex Kempa, Biljana Joves, Andreas Rheinhold, Alessandro Ghiani, Nina Lutz, Swenja Walcher, Κωνσταντίνος Τσίτουρας, Joanna Paderewska, Selina Briese, Christoph Andritschky, Patrick Gehrig, Joachim Sugg, Susanne Hirschmann, Simone Britsch, Christa Straub, Claude Jabbour, Michael Hahn, Joerg Krebs, Peter-Tobias Graf, Petra Denzer, Mascha O. Fiedler, Miriane Bomeken, Sebastian Stier, Tom Terboven, Uta Merle, Jens Regula, Jens Müller, Ute Oltmanns, Marcus Hennersdorf, Neslihan Satir, Mathias M. Borst, Brigitte Mayèr, Wolfgang Reikow, Markus Kredel, Konstantin Frey, Holger Wolff, Florian Seidlitz, Stefanie Bientzle, Boris Nohé, Sebastian Allgäuer, Alexej Schöpp, Christoph Schlegel, Imke Hübner, Andrezj Kuzniar, Helene Häberle, Reimer Rießen, Benjamin Schempf, Ingo Rebenschütz, Andreas Straub, Marc Kollum, Markus Winter, Paul Hartveg, Andreas Junginger, Helmut Beck, Mathias Vogel,
Abstract Background Invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) is a standard therapy for intensive care patients with respiratory failure. With increasing population age and multimorbidity, the number of patients who cannot be weaned from IMV increases, resulting in impaired quality of life and high costs. In addition, human resources are tied up in the care of these patients. Methods The PRiVENT intervention is a prospective, mixed-methods interventional, multicentre study with a parallel comparison ...
Tópico(s): Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
2023 - BioMed Central | BMC Health Services Research
Fabian Wagner, Markus Amann, Jens Borken, J. Cofała, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Pallav Purohit, Peter Rafaj, Wolfgang Schöpp, Wilfried Winiwarter,
Tópico(s): Environmental Impact and Sustainability
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Sustainability Science
C Schopp, Markus Braun‐Falco, F M Köhn,
Drug Prescribing for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in General Practice: a Cross-Sectional Study
Tópico(s): Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
2006 - Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany) | DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift
Zbigniew Klimont, Markus Amann, J. Cofala, F. Gyárfáŝ, G. Klaassen, Wolfgang Schöpp,
Tópico(s): Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
1994 - Elsevier BV | Atmospheric Environment
A. D. Bhanarkar, Pallav Purohit, Peter Rafaj, Markus Amann, I. Bertok, J. Cofała, Padma S. Rao, B.Harsha Vardhan, Gregor Kiesewetter, Robert Sander, Wolfgang Schöpp, D. Majumdar, Anjali Srivastava, Swapnil Deshmukh, Amit Kawarti, Rakesh Kumar,
Urbanization, population and economic growth in Indian megacities like Delhi have resulted in an increase in energy and transportation demand leading to severe air pollution and related health impacts, as well as to the rapid growth in the greenhouse gas emissions. In this study, an integrated assessment of air quality and climate policies for Indian cities – with a particular focus on National Capital Territory of Delhi, has been carried out. We have developed emission inventory of air pollutants ...
Tópico(s): Urban Transport and Accessibility
2018 - Elsevier BV | Atmospheric Environment
... https://doi.org/10.4000/terrain.2610Joseph C. Schöpp, Werner Reinhart, Horst Tonn, Kurt A. Mayer, Wolfgang G. Müller, Susanne Opfermann, Michael Porsche, Brenda Hollweg, Tamara Pianos, Ulfried Reichardt, Ansgar Nünning, Klaus Ensslen, Ruth Nestvold, Christian Berkemeier, Wolfgang Binder, Harald Zapf, Ulrich Halfmann, Winfried Herget, Gerd Hurm, Maria Moss, Jutta Person, Jutta Zimmermann, Gerhard Bach, Diana von Finck, Thomas Claviez, Kristina Kalb, Markus Heide, Günter Leypoldt, Oliver Scheiding, Udo Hebel, Martin ...
Tópico(s): Humor Studies and Applications
1983 - University of Chicago Press | Critical Inquiry
Pallav Purohit, Markus Amann, Gregor Kiesewetter, Peter Rafaj, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Hem H. Dholakia, Poonam Nagar Koti, Zbigniew Klimont, Jens Borken, Adriana Gómez-Sanabria, Wolfgang Schöpp, Robert Sander,
Exposure to ambient particulate matter is a leading risk factor for environmental public health in India. While Indian authorities implemented several measures to reduce emissions from the power, industry and transportation sectors over the last years, such strategies appear to be insufficient to reduce the ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration below the Indian National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) of 40 μg/m3 across the country. This study explores pathways towards achieving ...
Tópico(s): Energy and Environment Impacts
2019 - Elsevier BV | Environment International
Markus Amann, I. Bertok, Jens Borken, J. Cofała, C. Heyes, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Zbigniew Klimont, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Maximilian Posch, Peter Rafaj, Robert S. Sandler, Wolfgang Schöpp, Fabian Wagner, Wilfried Winiwarter,
Environmental policies in Europe have successfully eliminated the most visible and immediate harmful effects of air pollution in the last decades. However, there is ample and robust scientific evidence that even at present rates Europe’s emissions to the atmosphere pose a significant threat to human health, ecosystems and the global climate, though in a less visible and immediate way. As many of the ‘low hanging fruits’ have been harvested by now, further action will place higher demands on economic ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
2011 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Modelling & Software
Sebastian Schöpp, Saban Elitok, Markus Bieringer, W Schneider, Friedrich C. Luft,
Anti-synthetase syndrome is a relatively recently described auto-immune disease characterized by auto-antibodies to enzymes that acetylate transfer RNA (tRNA). Interstitial pulmonary disease and inflammatory myopathy are regular findings. Our patient also exhibited a lupus-like glomerulonephritis. An important clue was the presence of 'mechanics' hands. Nephrologists need to be aware of this syndrome.
Tópico(s): Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
2013 - Oxford University Press | Clinical Kidney Journal
Markus Amann, Pallav Purohit, A. D. Bhanarkar, I. Bertok, Jens Borken, J. Cofała, C. Heyes, Gregor Kiesewetter, Zbigniew Klimont, Jun Liu, D. Majumdar, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Peter Rafaj, Padma S. Rao, Robert Sander, Wolfgang Schöpp, Ashutosh Srivastava, B. Harsh Vardhan,
Megacities in Asia rank high in air pollution at the global scale. In many cities, ambient concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) have been exceeding both the WHO interim targets as well as respective national air quality standards. This paper presents a systems analytical perspective on management options that could efficiently improve air quality at the urban scale, having Delhi as a case study. We employ the newly developed GAINS-City policy analysis framework, consisting of a bottom ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 impact on air quality
2017 - Elsevier BV | Atmospheric Environment