Authors and acknowledgements
Synthesis report
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- 1. The changing context of European environmental policy
- 2. The European environment in a wider perspective
- 3. Protecting, conserving and enhancing natural capital
- 4. Resource efficiency and the low-carbon economy
- 5. Safeguarding people from environmental risks to health
- 6. Understanding the systemic challenges facing Europe
- 7. Responding to systemic challenges: from vision to transition
- References and bibliography
- Synthesis report content index
Global megatrends
- Setting the scene
- Diverging global population trends (GMT 1)
- Towards a more urban world (GMT 2)
- Changing disease burdens and risks of pandemics (GMT 3)
- Accelerating technological change (GMT 4)
- Continued economic growth? (GMT 5)
- An increasingly multipolar world (GMT 6)
- Intensified global competition for resources (GMT 7)
- Growing pressures on ecosystems (GMT 8)
- Increasingly severe consequences of climate change (GMT 9)
- Increasing environmental pollution (GMT 10)
- Diversifying approaches to governance (GMT 11)
European briefings
- Agriculture
- Air pollution
- Biodiversity
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Consumption
- Energy
- Forests
- Freshwater quality
- Green economy
- Health and environment
- Hydrological systems and sustainable water management
- Industry
- Land systems
- Marine environment
- Maritime activities
- Mitigating climate change
- Natural capital and ecosystem services
- Noise
- Resource efficiency
- Soil
- The air and climate system
- Tourism
- Transport
- Urban systems
- Waste
Cross-country comparisons
- Agriculture — organic farming
- Air pollution — emissions of selected pollutants
- Biodiversity — protected areas
- Energy — energy consumption and share of renewable energy
- Freshwater quality — nutrients in rivers
- Mitigating climate change — greenhouse gas emissions
- Resource efficiency — material resource efficiency and productivity
- Transport — passenger transport demand and modal split
- Waste — municipal solid waste generation and management
Countries and regions
- Albania country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Austria country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Belgium country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Bosnia and Herzegovina country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Bulgaria country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Croatia country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Cyprus country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Czech Republic country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Denmark country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Estonia country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Finland country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- France country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Germany country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Greece country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Hungary country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Iceland country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Ireland country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Italy country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Kosovo* country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Latvia country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Liechtenstein country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Lithuania country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Luxembourg country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Malta country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Montenegro country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- The Netherlands country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Norway country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Poland country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Portugal country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Romania country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Serbia country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Slovakia country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Slovenia country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Spain country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Sweden country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Switzerland country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Turkey country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- United Kingdom country briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Arctic region briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Black Sea region briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
- Mediterranean Sea region briefing - The European environment — state and outlook 2015
EEA lead authors
Synthesis report
Jock Martin, Thomas Henrichs, Cathy Maguire, Dorota Jarosinska, Mike Asquith, Ybele Hoogeveen.
Global megatrends
Anita Pirc Velkavrh, Mike Asquith, Teresa Ribeiro, Tobias Lung.
EEA advisory group
Synthesis report
Hans Bruyninckx, David Stanners, Katja Rosenbohm, Paul McAleavey, Ronan Uhel.
Global megatrends
Annika Hedberg, European Policy Centre (EPC); Jacob Werksman, DG Climate Action; Jan Bakkes, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL); Laurant Bontoux, JRC Brussels; Louis Meuleman, DG Environment; Nikolaos Kastrinos, DG Research & Innovation; Sybille van den Hove, Median SCP & Autonomous University of Barcelona, Chair of the EEA Scientific Committe.
EEA coordination group
Jock Martin, Thomas Henrichs, Milan Chrenko, Andy Martin, Brendan Killeen, Cathy Maguire, Frank Wugt Larsen, Gülçin Karadeniz, Johannes Schilling, Mike Asquith, Søren Roug, Teresa Ribeiro.
Authors and contributors
Synthesis, European briefings, cross-countries comparisons and regional briefings
Adriana Gheorghe, Alfredo Sanchez Vincente, Almut Reichel, Anca-Diana Barbu, Andrus Meiner, Anita Pirc Velkavrh, Anke Lükewille, Annemarie Bastrup Birk, Aphrodite Mourelatou, Barbara Clark, Carlos Romao, Catherine Ganzleben, Cathy Maguire, Cécile Roddier Quefelec, Cinzia Pastorello, Colin Nugent, Daniel Álvarez, David Quist, Dorota Jarosinska, Eva Goossens, Eva Royo Gelabert, François Dejean, Frank Wugt Larsen, Geertrui Louwagie, Hans-Martin Füssel, Jan-Erik Petersen, Jasmina Bogdanovic, Johannes Schilling, John van Aardenne, Johnny Reker, Katarzyna Biala, Lars Mortensen, Marie Cugny-Seguin, Martin Adams, Mihai Tomsecu, Mike Asquith, Milan Chrenko, Nikolaj Bock, Roberta Pignatelli, Pawel Kazmierczyk, Peter Kristensen, Silvia Giulietti, Spyridoula Ntemiri, Stefan Speck, Stéphane Isoard, Teresa Ribeiro, Tobias Lung, Valentin Foltescu, Wouter Vanneuville.
Global megatrends briefings
Anca-Diana Barbu, André Jol, Andrus Meiner, Anke Lükewille, David Stanners, Dorota Jarosinska, Frank Wugt Larsen, Gorm Dige, Hans-Martin Füssel, Jock Martin, John van Aardenne, Marie Cugny-Seguin, Martin Adams, Paul McAleavey, Ronan Uhel, Stefan Speck, Thomas Henrichs, Valentin Voltescu.
Country briefings
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Country briefing |
Country author(s) |
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Albania |
Oriana Hanxhari |
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Austria |
Andreas Berthold , Bettina Schwarzl, Florian Wolf-Off |
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Belgium |
Jan Voet |
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Bosnia & Herzegovina |
Andrea Muharemovic |
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Bulgaria |
Rositsa Karamfilova-Blagova |
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Croatia |
Mira Zovko |
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Cyprus |
Nasia Dikigoropoulou |
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Czech Republic |
Tereza Ponocná, Jarmila Cikánková |
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Denmark |
Bo Møller Gottlieb, Mikkel Stenbæk Hansen |
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Estonia |
Anne Aan |
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Finland |
Eija Putkuri, Anna Toppari, Tapani Saynatkari |
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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Katerina Nikolovska |
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France |
Irénée Joassard, Thomas Kochert |
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Germany |
Marian Pohl |
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Greece |
Marilena Eleftheriou |
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Hungary |
Elemér Szabó |
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Iceland |
Helgi Jensson, Ástríður E Jónsdóttir |
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Ireland |
Tony Dolan, Deirdre Murphy |
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Italy |
Mariaconcetta Giunta, Alessandra Galosi, Luca Segazzi |
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Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99 |
Afrim Berisha |
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Latvia |
Evita Vitola |
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Liechtenstein |
Heike Summer, Hanspeter Eberle |
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Lithuania |
Irena Mereskeviciene, Vytautas Narusevicius |
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Luxembourg |
Eric De Brabanter |
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Malta |
Claire Cordina Borg |
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Montenegro |
Lidija Scepanovic, Vesna Novakovic |
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Netherlands |
Laurens Brandes, Kees Schotten |
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Norway |
Rebekka Borsch |
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Poland |
Barbara Albiniak |
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Portugal |
Rita Ribeiro |
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Romania |
Gabriela Vasiliu-Isac |
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Serbia |
Dejan Lekic |
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Slovakia |
Zuzana Lieskovská |
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Slovenia |
Barbara Bernard Vukadin |
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Spain |
Elisa Rivera Mendoza, Nieves Morales-Albo |
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Sweden |
Jonas Rodhe |
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Switzerland |
Brigitte Reutter, Nicolas Perritaz |
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Turkey |
Müjgan Kunt, Fatih Erkal |
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United Kingdom |
Christine Holleran, Martin Fowell, Ahmed Azam |
Web production and editing support
Antonio De Marinis, Carsten Iversen, Chanell Daniels, Henriette Nilsson, John James O'Doherty, Marie Jaegly, Marina Sitkina, Mauro Michielon, Nicole Kobosil, Patrick McMullan, Pia Schmidt.
Acknowledgements
Synthesis, European briefings, cross-countries comparisons and regional briefings
- Contributions from European topic centres (ETCs) — ETC Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation, ETC Biological Diversity, ETC Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, ETC Spatial Information and Analysis, ETC Sustainable Consumption and Production, ETC Water;
- background work carried out by Stockholm Environment Institute, with support from Prospex;
- feedback from and discussion with colleagues from DG Environment, DG Climate Action, Joint Research Centre, and Eurostat;
- feedback from Eionet — via national focal points from 33 EEA member countries and six EEA cooperating countries;
- feedback from the EEA Scientific Committee;
- feedback and guidance from the EEA Management Board;
- feedback from EEA colleagues;
- Participants of two dedicated SOER 2015 stakeholder workshops on 9–10 December 2013 in Copenhagen, and 6–7 February 2014 in Leuven.
- Feedback from DG Environment.
- Feedback from Eionet — via national reference centres (NRCs) for Forward-Looking Information and Services (FLIS).
- Feedback from United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Office for Liaison with European Institutions.
Consultancy support
Global megatrends
Banson; Bio Intelligence Service S.A.S.; Collingwood Environmental Planning (CEP); Millieu Ltd.; Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI); Zoï Environment Network.
Web production
Eau de web: Alexandru Ghica, Alin Voinea, David Ichim, Zoltan Szabo
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