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Change observation
1	Mortalities of people aged 65-74 across Europe were investigated at temperatures above, below and within each region's temperature band of minimum mortality with the finding that overall the 3 degreesC minimum mortality temperature bands were significantly higher in regions with higher mean summer temperature compared to regions with lower mean temperature, i.e., regions with hot summers did not have significantly higher annual heat related mortality per million population.
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Keatinge, W. R. et al., 2000
Impact attribution
1	Mortalities of people aged 65-74 across Europe were investigated at temperatures above, below and within each region's temperature band of minimum mortality with the finding that overall the 3 degreesC minimum mortality temperature bands were significantly higher in regions with higher mean summer temperature compared to regions with lower mean temperature, i.e., regions with hot summers did not have significantly higher annual heat related mortality per million population.
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Keatinge, W. R. et al., 2000

2	The relationship between climate and asthma symptom prevalence was investigated across the 48 centers of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey, and it is shown that respiratory symptom prevalence was directly related to temperature in the coldest month and inversely to the temperature in the hottest month.
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Verlato, G. et al., 2002

3	The paper summarises the findings of IRMA-SPONGE, an international research programme for the development of methods and tools to assess the impact of flood risk reduction measures, climate change and land use change on the Rhine and Meuse rivers in order to support spatial planning processes; the important role of spatial planning as a flood risk management component is being emphasized, especially in areas at risk of flooding.
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Hooijer, M. et al., 2004

4	The relation between climate and atopic diseases (in particular, symptoms of asthma, allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, and atopic eczema) in children aged 13-14 and 6-7 years was investigated by statistically analysing questionnaires of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood; it showed that the prevalence of asthma symptoms correlated with indoor relative humidity (positively), altitude (negatively), annual variation of temperature (negatively), relative humidity outdoors; the prevalence of eczema symptoms correlated with latitude (positively) and mean annual outdoor temperature (negatively).
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Weiland, S. K. et al., 2004
Impact projection
1	The paper presents project results, which investigated the impact of climate change on the discrepancies between water supply and demand in the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the Netherlands, where the demands for flood protection, inland navigation, ecology, hydropower, water availability for agriculture, industry and drinking are high even today.
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Middelkoop, H. and Kwadijk, J. C. J., 2001

2	The impacts of climate change, atmospheric CO2 concentration, and technological development on wheat crop productivity were modeled for Europe and four IPCC SRES scenarios for the time period 2000-2080; simulated results include that crop productivity increases between 25-163% depending on the time slice and scenario, that technology development is the most important driver for change, and that estimated increases in productivity exceed expected demand changes for most scenarios.
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Ewert, F. et al., 2005

3	Impacts of a range of environmental change drivers, including climate and socio-economic change, on agricultural land use in Europe for interpretations of the four IPCC SRES scenarios and the time period 2000-2080 are studied; simulated results include a substantial decline in cropland and grassland areas if technology continues to progress at current rates and if there is not a correspondingly large increase in the demand for agricultural goods, or if political decisions are not taken either to reduce crop productivity through policies that encourage extensification or to accept widespread overproduction.
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Rounsevell, M.D.A. et al., 2005

4	The paper investigates the impact of climate change and land-use change on hydrological responses in the Alpine catchments with a focus on analysing differences in the hydrological responses between different Alpine climate zones, between different climate and land-use scenarios as well as differences in the results of several global circulation models; main results include a projected substantial runoff regime shift across the Alps with rising temperature strongly affecting the runoff regimes.
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Zierl, B. and Bugmann, H., 2005

5	Derived maps of the potential distribution of 26 bioenergy crops in Europe taking into account climate change as projected by several global climate models and emissions scenarios show that there is an increasing distribution of bioenergy crops in northern Europe by the 2080s, while in southern Europe many temperate crops are estimated to decline dramatically over the same period of time.
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Tuck, G. et al., 2006
Adaptation options assessment
1	The paper summarises the findings of IRMA-SPONGE, an international research programme for the development of methods and tools to assess the impact of flood risk reduction measures, climate change and land use change on the Rhine and Meuse rivers in order to support spatial planning processes; the important role of spatial planning as a flood risk management component is being emphasized, especially in areas at risk of flooding.
summary extracted from
Hooijer, M. et al., 2004
Scenario development
1	The paper presents several spatially explicit land use change scenarios for the EU15, Norway and Switzerland based on a qualitative interpretation of the IPCC SRES storylines for the European region as well as on quantitative land use change model outputs and discusses the difficulties in developing these scenarios; major results include increases in areas for forestry, bioenergy crops, and urbanization, but a large decline in agricultural land.
summary extracted from
Rounsevell, M.D.A. et al., 2006

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