Concerted action on environmental valutation

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 97.0457-1
• Projekttitel Englisch: Concerted action on environmental valutation

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Environment; valuation methods; property rights; ecology; economics; interdisciplinarity

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: ENV4-CT97-0558

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 4. Frame Research Programme - 3.1 Environment

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Weitere Hinweise und Angaben (Englisch)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Université de Genève
Centre Universitaire d'Ecologie humaine
et des Sciences de l'environnement

Partner und Internationale Organisationen (Englisch)

Coordinator: University of Cambridge (UK)

Abstract (Englisch)

The purpose of this concerted action is to analyse effective methods for expressing the values associated with environmental goods and services, ecosystem functions, and natural capital with a view to the achievement of the goals summarised in the concept of sustainability. In recognising the importance of environmental valuation this concerted action addresses the input of information to policy decisions and the diversity of research currently being undertaken. The appropriate role for policy makers and citizens in environmental policy formation takes on a central focus in the debate over how different values should be expressed. The type of information relevant to the decision process extends from ecological functioning to moral values. Thus, a range of approaches to environmental valuation, from ecology to economics to philosophy, become relevant. Eve covers a variety of policy relevant topics (e.g. National accounting, natural capital, cost- benefit analysis, public participation, sustainable development) from a range of disciplinary perspectives. This interdisciplinary approach is incorporated into the structure of eve. The goal is to overcome some of the problems identified with on-going environmental valuation research in europe, and so to expose the variety of ways in which environmental values influence individual choice. The eve programme is focused around a series of workshops in which these issues will be debated and output of immediate policy relevance produced. Eve encourages the networking of active researchers in the field through workshops and aims to stimulate debate via the production of a variety of publications and the use of an internet site.
Dr clive spash, eve coordinator

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 97.0457-1