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EcosystemEvaluation carried out a socio-eonomic impact assessment of the A2J EARL project. The project aims to improve how EU environmental law is used and enforced, by raising people’s awareness of their right to go to court when environmental laws are broken.

The EU’s environmental policies are among the most comprehensive ones at the international level. In spite of this, their proper implementation is often lagging behind. Experience throughout the EU Member States suggests that public authorities alone cannot address this deficit in implementation. Accordingly, empowered citizens and trained actors representing the entire legal chain with extended knowledge about access to justice are vital to enable more effective implementation – something that the A2J EARL project focused on.

EcosystemEvaluation carried out the project’s socio-eonomic impact assessment. [Read more…] about Measuring the impact of access to justice for a greener Europe project

It is with great sadness that we share the news that on March 25 Leon Braat, the founding Editor-in-Chief of ‘Ecosystem Services’, passed away after a short but unstoppable illness. ‘We’ in this case are his fellow-editors and involved staff at Elsevier. Many were not only colleagues but also close friends with Leon for many years.

Leon was one of the few economists who recognized early that if we are to save the incredible diversity of life on this planet, we need fundamental changes in our economic system. Sentiments and ethics alone are, clearly and unfortunately, not enough to stop the ongoing destruction of ecosystems and loss of biodiversity. [Read more…] about In memoriam Leon Braat 25 March 2021

We are pleased to share with you the latest version of the Ecosystem Service Valuation Database.

For this update, we teamed-up with Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) of the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO). ESVD data are linked to the Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computation Tool (B-INTACT) for evaluating the ‘social cost of biodiversity’ indicator (one out of a set of indicators employed in the tool). Our focus was on increasing the coverage of the database for natural terrestrial biomes in order to improve the current indicator robustness. We also expanded data towards Mangroves (Coastal systems biome) as part of a meta-analytic application of ESVD, commissioned by the World Bank. [Read more…] about Ecosystem Services Valuation Database Latest Version