Title: Ecosystems services — accounting for what matters 
Resource Type: document --> public information 
Country: European Union 
Year: 2008 
Availability: EEA Briefing 2008 2 
Author 1/Producer: European Environment Agency (EEA) 
Author / Producer Type: Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body 
ISBN: ISSN 1830-2246 
Report / download web link (=direct link): http://reports.eea.europa.eu/briefing_2008_2/en/EN_BRIEFING_ ...  
EUGRIS Keyword(s): Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Receptor: Ecological
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Environmental
 
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'. 
Link to Organisation(s): EEA European Environment Agency
 
Submitted By: Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?      Last update: 04/07/2008

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