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.
LIAISE Working Paper No.2: Assessing the Economic Impacts of Climate Change. An Updated CGE Point of View
Date:
02/03/2012
Excerpt:
The present research describes a climate change integrated impact assessment exercise, whose economic evaluation is based on a CGE approach and modeling effort. Input to the CGE model comes from a wide although still partial set of up-to-date bottom-up impact studies. Involving the Public in Catchment Management: An Analysis of the Scope for Learning Lessons from Abroad.
Date:
20/02/2012
Excerpt:
The paper analyses the scope for a transfer of knowledge and experience from abroad to the EU-level in the field of water policy by assessing theoretical accounts of the most likely facilitator and obstacles to lesson drawing. ... Catchment Management Groups in England and Wales: Extent, Roles and Influences
Date:
20/02/2012
Excerpt:
The paper reports survey findings of community-based and state-led initiatives to illustrate the situation in England and Wales. Catchment management groups are profiled in terms of various categories and the results are interpreted in terms of their potential sustainability, effectiveness and impact of groups & environmental governance challenges. Simulating Land Use Policies Targeted to Protect Biodiversity with the CLUE-Scanner Model
Date:
25/01/2012
Excerpt:
This chapter presents an integrated modeling approach for assessing land use changes and its effects on biodiversity. A modeling framework consisting of a macro-economic model, a land use change model, and biodiversity indicator models is described and illustrated with a scenario study for the European Union. ... A Rural Typology for Strategic European Policies
Date:
25/01/2012
Excerpt:
The role that the agricultural sector plays in rural areas has considerably changed in the last decades, and is reflected in a major shift towards multi-dimensional, multi-sectoral land use. The rural typology presented in this paper has been produced as a response to a new policy need for typologies addressing the diversity in regional rurality. Environmental Policy
Date:
25/01/2012
Excerpt:
This section of the 'International Encyclopaedia of Political Science' traces the historical evolution of environmental policy, then outlines its distinctive characteristics and finally identifies its underlying rationales. ... LIAISE Working Paper No.1: Green Economy Discourses in the Run-Up to Rio 2012
Date:
18/11/2011
Excerpt:
The study analyses central contributions to the debate on the concept of a Green Economy in the runup to the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable development. It does so by identifying the pillars on which the various understandings of a green economy are based as well as analysing policy
concepts published and statements made.... Chapter on 'Environmental Policy' in the International Encyclopedia of Political Science
Date:
08/11/2011 Appraising the Environmental Drivers of Migration
Date:
08/11/2011
Excerpt:
A new report published by the UK government’s Foresight programme reveals that the major challenges associated with migration and environmental change have been underestimated. ... EXIOPOL Briefs: Bottom-up and Top-down Approach for Policy Analysis
Date:
12/10/2011
Excerpt:
On 12 October 2011, the four-year EU-funded EXIOPOL project coordinated by FEEM, held its final conference in Luxembourg. The project's main finding are summarised in two briefs, representing the Bottom-up and Top-down approaches developed in EXIOPOL.