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Fluvial floods are a common natural hazard in Europe. Only in the 90ies, large floods have affected the Meuse and Rhine, the Oder and the Po rivers. Following the devastating floods in the Elbe and Danube river basins in 2002, the European Commission

Forest fires are one of the most devastating forces of nature. It has claimed lives,damaged property and infrastructure and destroyed hectares and hectares of forest land,which provide economical and recreational resources to society. Forests are also the

The increasingly variable climate in Europe has seen rising numbers of extreme flood events in the last decades, in the Danube, Odra and Elbe river basins just to name a few. The floods most perceived by the public are the large-scale riverine floods

Unfortunately, the careful use and management of soil has not been a high priority for many people. In fact, there is evidence that the thin layer of soil that we all depend on, in many areas of Europe and beyond, may be increasingly threatened by a range

Landslides are a widespread hazard in many mountainous and hilly regions of Europe. They cause significant economic losses as well as human victims. The socio-economic impact of landslides is however difficult to quantify at European scale, mainly because

An important step for member states of EU was to develop comparable methods for evaluating the status of the water-bodies. Since fishes are more likely to be regarded as food than as environmental indicators, it has been difficult to establish methods

Soil erosion by water is a widespread problem throughout Europe. A report for the Council of Europe, using revised GLASOD data (Oldeman et al., 1991; Van Lynden, 1995), provides an overview of the extent of soil degradation in Europe.

The aim of the PESETA project is to assess the impacts of climate change in Europe on a policy-relevant time horizon (2020, 2030) using consistent methods (climate scenarios) for six sectors (agriculture, river floods, coastal floods, energy demand