Title: |
Quality of Life Capital Managing environmental, social and economic benefits
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Resource Type: |
document --> guidance / decision support
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Country: |
United Kingdom
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Year: |
2001 |
Availability: |
Overview Report
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Author 1/Producer: |
Countryside Agency
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Other Authors/Producers: |
English Heritage, English Nature and Environment Agency
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Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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Publisher: |
Natural England
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Publisher City: |
Northminster House, Peterborough, PE1 1UA, UK
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Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Assessment tools Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Economic Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Environmental Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Social Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Sustainable / green remediation
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Short description: |
Quality of life (QoL) capital assessment is a sustainability appraisal tool for maximising and integrating environmental, economic and social benefits as part of any land use or management decision. The core idea of QoL Capital is that the environment, the economy and society provide a range of benefits for human life, and that it is these benefits or services which need to be protected and/or enhanced. Assessment examines these benefits and services systematically, using a series of questions:
o who the services matter to, why, and at what spatial scale
o how important are they, distinct question from the previous one
o whether the benefits and services are in short supply
o what (if anything) could make up for any loss or damage to the service.
Expert judgement and community views both need to be reflected, so QoL Capital draws on both public consultation and involvement processes and technical appraisal methods including (for environmental benefits and services) environmental impact assessment, landscape, ecological, archaeological and characterisation studies
The output of the process is a matrix of written conclusions, rather than a formal valuation.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 16/08/2007
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