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.
Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making: Theory, Practice and Quality Assurance
Date:
05/10/2012
Excerpt:
The new book "Sustainable Developement, Evaluation and Policy-Making" edited by Anneke von Raggamby and Frieder Rubik contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. New Book Chapter on the Role of Impact Assessment in Policy Making
Date:
06/09/2012
Excerpt:
LIAISE partners have published a novel account of the role of Impact Assessment in every day policy making processes including policy formulation and decision making. ... Alterra Report: Impacts of Cross Compliance Measures on Environmental Indicators
Date:
31/08/2012
Excerpt:
The new Alterra Report 2323 "Impacts of Cross Compliance Measures on Environmental Indicators - an assessment tool to evaluate environmental impacts on the European Scale" describes the approach and application methodology of an environmental impact tool to evaluate cross compliance measures on environmental effect indicators. Environmental Policy in the European Union: Contexts, Actors and Policy Dynamics
Date:
31/08/2012
Excerpt:
The new and comprehensively revised third edition of the well known textbook, "Environmental Policy in the European Union: Contexts, Actors and Policy Dynamics", edited by Andrew Jordan and Camilla Adelle provides a state of the art analysis of the EU’s environmental policies. ... Spatial Data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as Support Tools for Environmental Assessment
Date:
01/08/2012
Excerpt:
A new special issue of Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management has just been published on "Spatial Data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as Support Tools for Environmental Assessment" with Ainhoa Gonzalez as the special issue editor.
A multicriteria Model to Support Eco-friendly Agricultural Production Planning
Date:
17/07/2012
Excerpt:
A model to support water-use and eco-friendly decision process in agricultural production has been developed in the context of the research project entitled EU Water (Transnational integrated management of water resources in agriculture for European water emergency control). Classification of Rural Areas in Europe Using Social Sustainability Indicators
Date:
17/07/2012
Excerpt:
This paper by P. Chatzinikolaou, B. Manos and T. Bournaris aims to measure social sustainability indicators and to compare them. ... Effects of CAP Policy on Farm Household Behaviour and Social Sustainability
Date:
17/07/2012
Excerpt:
This paper by B. Manos, Th. Bournaris, P. Chatzinikolaou, J. Berbel and D. Nikolov aims to assess the effects of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on farm household behaviour and social sustainability by estimating main labour and employment indicators. Collaborative Environmental Governance: Are Watershed Partnerships Swimming Or Are They Sinking?
Date:
06/07/2012
Excerpt:
The article by Benson, Jordan, Cook & Smith critically evaluates how well the political contracting framework (PCF) explains the emergence of collaborative watership partnerships, which initially evolved in the United States, in the institutional context of the United Kingdom. Proceeding in Parallel or Drifting Apart? A Systematic Review of Policy Appraisal Research and Practice
Date:
06/07/2012
Excerpt:
Policy appraisal has spread rapidly throughout the OECD and beyond, as has the associated academic literature. In this paper the authors present the findings of a systematic review of this literature. They assess the extent to which developments in academic research and in everyday appraisal practices have informed to one another.