This report is intended to give ministers, senior civil servants, other policy-makers and others with an interest to protect our waters a broad overview of the major water issues in Europe. It represents a distillation of the work undertaken by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its...

The European Environment Agency and its Topic Centre on Inland Waters is undertaking an assessment of the sustainable use of water in Europe. This report describes the second part of that assessment and looks in particular at demand-side management of water across Europe. It is intended that the...

This report gives an overview of the main natural and artificial causes and impacts of floods and droughts in western and central European countries, as well as policy responses. It aims to help policy- and decision-makers in their work on preventing and managing such extreme events, as well as...

This report explores in detail material flows in the economy which have a possible influence on the environment. It attempts to define the parameters that need to be taken into account to steer human development towards ecological sustainability. The report proposes a measure for resource...

This report has been prepared in the framework of the EEA annual work programme, as part of the work plan of the former European Topic Centre on Soil. It contains a proposal for the establishment of a comprehensive framework for monitoring, assessing and reporting on soil conditions in Europe.

This technical report aims to provide guidance to all involved in data collection for the indicator-based state of the environment report that the EEA has been asked to provide for the next conference of environment ministers of all European countries, to be held in Kiev in May 2003. The report...

This report contains a summary of EEA work on the development of a European soil monitoring and assessment framework for soil since 1999. The framework is being designed as a basis for the work needed to support policy developments within the European Community as well as the EEA reporting...

Despite political commitment, Europe is struggling to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Forests, as the hosts of much of the biological diversity in Europe, are vital to this debate. Any initiative designed to halt the biodiversity loss in Europe must take forests into account.

Key messages: 1) Diverse climatic conditions, varied geology and morphology and centuries of pre- and post-industrial land use created Europe's diverse mosaic of cultural and natural landscapes, rich in biodiversity. 2) Europe's landscapes have become highly fragmented and homogenised,...