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  3. Costing environmental damage

Costing environmental damage

  • Analysing project environmental costs

Context

An important step in determining what should be done about environmental damage is to value it and compare it with the cost of preventing the damage.

Broader

Assessing environmental impacts
Presentable
Using full cost accounting
Yet to rate
Planning projects
Yet to rate
Improving legislation against environmental pollution
Yet to rate
Implementing economic appraisal for proposed development activities
Yet to rate
Analysing economic impacts
Yet to rate

Narrower

Conducting environmental site assessment
Yet to rate

Constrained by

Measuring sustainability
Excellent
Recognizing environmental resource base for economic activity
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Managing tourism for both recreation and conservation
Excellent
Protecting global environment
Presentable
Internalizing the environment and health costs of transport systems
Presentable
Developing integrated environmental frameworks
Presentable
Revealing hidden environmental costs of economic production
Yet to rate
Protecting the environment from contamination
Yet to rate
Protecting against hazards to human health in the natural environment
Yet to rate
Protecting against environmental hazards from industry
Yet to rate
Protecting against environmental hazards from agricultural and pastoral activities
Yet to rate
Designing for environment
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Internalizing environmental costs
Presentable
Strengthening national environmental data assessment capabilities
Yet to rate
Integrating biodiversity concerns into liability mechanisms
Yet to rate
Improving methodologies for estimating environmental costs
Yet to rate
Establishing comprehensive environmental law system
Yet to rate
Cooperating on cost-effect analysis and environmental impact procedures
Yet to rate

Problem

Incompatibility of environmental and economic decision-making
Excellent
Environmental pollution
Excellent
Environmental degradation
Excellent
Unaccountability of institutions degrading the environment
Presentable
Social environmental degradation from recreation and tourism
Presentable
Inadequate evaluation of environmental costs
Presentable
Environmental stress of natural systems
Presentable
Environmental degradation due to creation of dams
Presentable
Failure to take account of externalities of systems
Yet to rate

Value

Damage
Yet to rate

Reference

Dixon, John A, et al: Economic Analysis of Environment Impacts

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionSustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Fundamental sciences » Analytics
  • Commerce » Purchasing, supplying
  • Societal problems » Destruction
  • Environment » Environment
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024