Nitrogen Deposition and Natura 2000 Workshop

COST 729 Mid-term Workshop 2009

Nitrogen Deposition and Natura 2000
Science & practice in determining environmental impacts

18-20 May, 2009 Brussels

Goal
To harmonize approaches for determining the impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on Natura 2000 and review the future policy options.

At present there is no common European approach for determining the impacts of nitrogen deposition on individual sites or on conservation status. This provides key challenges for this workshop: to develop best practices in environmental assessment and decision making, and to inform the needs for future policy development. The workshop will compare case studies from different European countries, review the scale of the nitrogen threat to Natura 2000 sites and conservation status, linking the science and decision making at local to European scales.

For more information on the topics and key themes visit the workshop web pages.