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The purpose of this concerted action was 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 addressed the input of information to policy
decisions and the diversity of research being undertaken at
the time. The appropriate role for policy makers and citizens
in environmental policy formation is a central focus of 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 become relevant
involving diverse disciplines such as ecology, economics,
political science and philosophy.
EVE covered a variety of policy relevant topics (e.g. national
accounting, natural capital, cost- benefit analysis, public
participation, sustainable development) from different
disciplinary perspectives. This
interdisciplinary
approach
was incorporated into the structure of EVE. The goal was 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 was focused
around a series of
workshops
in which these issues were debated and output of immediate policy
relevance produced. EVE encouraged the networking of active
researchers in the field through workshops while stimulating wider
debate via the production of a variety of
publications
.
Among these note that the EVE policy brief series is now available for
download from this internet site.
EVE Coordinator: Clive L. Spash
CONCERTED ACTION:
Environmental Valuation in Europe
(EVE)
June 1998 - November 2000
Funded by DG-XII European
Commission, Theme 4: Human Dimensions of Environmental
Change, Contract ENV4-CT97-0558; and the Swiss Federal
Office of Education and Science
EVE Project Manager: Claudia Carter
Last update 22-Sep-2006 09:56:00
EVE pages designed by Claudia Carter,
maintained by Robin Faichney.