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 publication gives an overview of Statistic Norway's work of compiling national statistics on natural resources and environmental issues, and developing methods and models for analysing trends in the extraction and use of natural resources and changes in the state of the environment. In particular, the study focuses on relationships between these factors and other socio-economic developments.
This case study utilizes an expanded measure of wealth to estimate the value of natural capital for Queensland, Australia. The state's stock of natural capital is valued at AUSD 355.6 billion, of which non-timber forest resources account for 45.3%, ecosystem services 20.0%, and mineral resources 17.6%. This figure is a conservative estimate of the true value since some significant components such as the ecological and life-support functions of the environment are excluded. The estimates highlight the relative importance of different forms of natural capital and can be used to draw the attention of policymakers to the need to give adequate weight to the value of such services in decision-making processes.
This study presents a framework for the valuation of ecosystem services related to conservation policies, both theoretically and practically, in order to make an economic case for the conservation of biodiversity. Theoretically, it is shown that the application of monetary valuation techniques is instrumental to the outcomes of models. Practically, the case study covers the valuation of water purification in the Northern Mediterranean region.
This study describes the Indian forestry-related stocks and flows in terms of land area (under forest), physical volume (of timber and carbon), and monetary values. The study demonstrates that forest resource accounting is feasible in India at a disaggregate level using a top-down approach and provides an interesting view of how different regions are doing when their performance is measured on a sustainability yardstick.
This case study discusses different methods of accounting for subsoil assets in the Czech Republic. The paper implements three different accounting methods.
This working paper, presented at the first sub regional training workshop on environment statistics in Bangkok in 2000, summarizes information from (a) the Pilot Compilation of Environmental-Economic Accounts in Korea, (b) the Pilot Compilation of Environmental-Economic Accounts in the Korean Agricultural Sector, and (c) some general remarks on Korea Environmental Economic Accounting (KEEA).