| Title: |
Ecosystems services — accounting for what matters
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| Resource Type: |
document --> public information
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| Country: |
European Union
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| Year: |
2008 |
| Availability: |
EEA Briefing 2008 2
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| Author 1/Producer: |
European Environment Agency (EEA)
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| ISBN: |
ISSN 1830-2246
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Receptor: Ecological
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Environmental
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| Short description: |
EXTRACT: Politically acceptable means of paying for our social and ecological securities represent a huge challenge that needs to be supported by innovative approaches and key forms of data and information. These include:
economy-environment accounting techniques to analyse the relationship between the activities of economic sectors and their impacts on the quantity/quality of ecosystems' goods and services;
accounts of inclusive ecosystem benefits and full costs of ecosystem maintenance for informing decisions and trade-offs in macroeconomic policies, local management and market-based actions;
measurements of societal cohesion and hence welfare that go 'beyond GDP' — based on a framework of socially cohesive economic entities known as 'socio-ecological systems'.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 04/07/2008
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