Publications
This section provides you with new relevant IA publications: articles, summaries of articles, book descriptions, paper series, reviews and links to IA literature. The publications stem from the LIAISE partners but also externals are accommodated as contributors. The content is in part freely accessible; other is pay content.
Special Symposium on Nature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development
Date:
29/03/2013
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This special symposium explores how the construction and utilization of scientific knowledge in policy making and its impact in the policy process itself can be better understood. ... Farm Type Effects of an EU-wide Direct Payment Harmonisation
Date:
27/03/2013
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In this study, the authors analyse how three scenarios involving different levels of harmonisation of common agricultural policy (CAP) decoupled payments in the EU affect the distribution of farm income across regions and farm types. They use the farm type extension of the common agricultural policy impact (CAPRI) model. ... Policy Reform and Agricultural Land Abandonment in the EU
Date:
27/03/2013
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This paper examines the potential impact of agricultural and trade policy reform on land-use across the EU focussing particularly on the issue of land abandonment. It estimates the extent of change across Europe under removal of Pillar 1 support payments and trade liberalisation. ... An Integrated Modelling Platform for Agro-economic Commodity and Policy Analysis (iMAP) - A Look Back and the Way Forward
Date:
26/03/2013
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This report describes the rationale and performance of the integrated Modelling Platform for Agroeconomic Commodity and Policy Analysis (iMAP), hosted by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies in Seville. IA Tools Applied to Impact Assessment of EU Policies in Agriculture and Environment
Date:
13/02/2013
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This paper by B. Manos, Th. Bournaris, Ch. Moulogianni and S. Arampatzis aims to provide a review of the IA tools applied for the assessment of the EU policies in agriculture and environment, to analyse and to classify them by different criteria according to the policy that they have been applied to and by the impacts that they have been measured. LIAISE Working Paper No.5: Policy-relevant Assessment Method of Socio-Economic Impacts of Floods: An Italian Case
Date:
25/01/2013
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This paper estimates the direct and indirect socio-economic impacts of the 2000 flood that took place in the Po river basin, Italy, using a combination of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and Spatial and Multi-Criteria Analysis. A risk map for the whole basin is generated as a function of hazard, exposure and vulnerability. ... New Book: Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, Strategies and Effects
Date:
21/01/2013
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Researchers in the Tyndall Centre at University of East Anglia have just produced the first comparative analysis of policy dismantling in different policy fields. Policy Relevant Sustainability Research
Date:
10/01/2013
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The publication "Policy Relevant Sustainability Research" guides various kinds of interested parties by providing detailed actor-specific requirement profiles for policy relevant sustainability research that aims to bridge specific knowledge to bear on policy issues relating to sustainable development. A Spatial Assessment of Ecosystem Services in Europe: Methods, Case Studies and Policy Analysis - Phase 2. Synthesis Report
Date:
18/12/2012
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The PRESS-2 study (PEER Research on EcoSystem Services – Phase 2) provides an analytical framework which enables the operationalization of the present scientific knowledge base of environmental data and models for application by the EU and Member States for mapping and assessment of ecosystem services. Assessment of N and P Status at the Landscape Scale Using Environmental Models and Measurements
Date:
17/12/2012
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The paper assesses the compliance of a Dutch landscape, dominated by dairy farming, with environmental quality standards using a combination of model calculations and mesurements.