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.
This report represents the first regional and global synthesis of data collected within the framework of the Global Socio-economic Monitoring for Coastal Management (SocMon) initiative.
This paper aims to identify the costs of coastal disasters in relation to human, social, built, and natural capital as well as their associated services at the local site of the disaster and in the regions and nations that respond for relief and recovery. It examines how, compared to typical cost accounting, disaster planning and preparedness becomes more cost effective when the full cost of disasters is calculated. A full-cost accounting also sets the stage for rigorous comparisons of strategies for post-disaster development.
This paper describes various management tools and indicators for sustainable development and provides some lessons drawn from Norwegian experiences. It recommends that, regardless of the information collected and organised to support decision-making processes, the final outcome should always be judged in terms of its impacts on policy processes. Thus, the authors warn against large-scale development of information systems, without due regard to the final utilisation of the output.