This study, conducted in Southern Punjab province, explores the impacts of a massive flood in 2010 on the livelihoods and food security of rural communities. The study found that agriculture was the major income source of the area and that the flood severely affected natural capital (land, irrigation, orchards, and livestock). This resulted in food insecurity, deficiency, and contaminated commodities.
This paper estimates the economic value of ecosystem services of Piatra Craiului National Park in Romania by using a number of recognized methodologies applied by environmental economists around the world. The approach and results include a benefit distribution analysis, for both the economic sectors and the groups of beneficiaries.
This case study advocates for integrating the values of goods and services provided by forest ecosystems into policy making in Tunisia. For example, the study recommends combining forest conservation measures with compensation systems for income losses and creating a Forest Development Fund funded by a tax on products and services provided by forests.
Swedish COBECOS Pilot Study - Costs and Benefits of Control Strategies in Selected Swedish Fisheries
This report tackles the impediments to successful fisheries control/enforcement schemes by developing computer-based modelling approaches, which help to optimise the cost-benefit ratio of envisioned strategies.
This publication has the overall objective to provide practical examples or good case practices in the River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) by assessing a list of agricultural measures included in the plan and focusing on issues of particular interest for the Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation in the agricultural sector. The River Basin Network (RBN) also lent support to the Expert Group on WFD and Agriculture in its work by offering technical and from-the-field feedback.
This paper uses the cases of Chad and Mauritania to illustrate how the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) and net saving can be used to diagnose policy failure and improve economic performance.
This paper provides an analysis of the importance and analytical potential of indirect flows in Italy. First, the importance of indirect flows is discussed, including a definition and instructions on calculation. This is followed by a detailed analysis of the Italian case, including several decompositions. Last, the paper concludes that indirect flows are quantitatively and qualitatively important and policy relevant and provides an outlook of their potential for future analysis.
This paper analyses the planning process leading to the approval of the expansion of the port of Rotterdam project in the Netherlands against sustainability criteria. Although it shows that the directive is powerful to promote sustainable planning, the success of the case study was due mainly to elements specific to the particular planning process, namely the use of deliberative public participation mechanisms as well as specific assessment tools.
This paper aims to value the biodiversity functions of India’s natural ecosystems and suggests a method to adjust national (GDP) and state income (GSDP) accounts accordingly.
This paper reviews different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of natural capital in national planning and provides recommendations for governments to undertake economic analyses of the environment and natural resources management for planning purposes.