Publications

The chemical composition of the atmosphere has numerous impacts to the quality of human life. COST Action ES0602 organized a workshop in Thessaloniki (GR) in May 2008, devoted to quality of life information services. The main purpose of the workshop was to present and discuss existing Chemical Weather Forecasting and Information Systems, developed both by the Action participants, and by related important organisations such as the European Environment Agency and the US Environmental Protection Agency. The focus was specifically on the dissemination and the wider use of chemical weather forecasting information. It included a number of key presentations from invited experts from Europe and the United States, which are included in this publication.

Migrants and ethnic minorities form a growing part of the populations of Europe. They often have higher than average exposure to health risks, while facing barriers to accessing appropriate health care. International bodies have called for policy measures to tackle these inequalities.

Abstracts of the COST Training School on “Up-to-date technology for ground-based survey of national forest inventories”, which took place in Czech Republic on 9-11 October 2005.

This publication offers an overview of the Action’s first meeting, held on 22-24 July 2013 in Rome, Italy. The meeting mainly addressed the state of the art, advancements and ongoing studies and open problems, in the fields of GPR technologies and methodologies. Participants also discussed inspection strategies and practices, electromagnetic methods for the modelling of GPR scenarios, and numerical algorithms for the processing of GPR data. The meeting also emphasised the importance of the relations between the discussed scientific-technological issues and the social and economical concerns.