Meta-Analysis in Environmental Economics

Bergh, J.C.J.M. van den; Button, Kenneth; Nijkamp, Peter; Pepping, Gerard

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8865-2

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“…Presently, there is no agreement among scholars under which framework to place the evaluation methods (Horner, 2004;Curwell et al, 2005;Deakin et al, 2007). In fact, there is a division between those who believe that environmental assessments contribute to sustainable development (Bergh et al, 1997;Brandon et al, 1997;Nijkamp & Pepping, 1998) and those who consider that the present methods are unable to evaluate non-market goods and services and therefore present methods make limited contributions to sustainable development (Guy & Marvin, 1997).…”

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A Review of Sustainability Assessment and Sustainability/Environmental Rating Systems and Credit Weighting Tools

Poveda¹,

Lipsett²

2011

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Developing a new assessment tool in the area of sustainable development requires a strategic methodology for a cohesive and logical framework incorporating relevant theory and practical experience, building on a critical analysis of the state of the art. The assessment process implies the existence of tools, instruments, processes, and methodologies to measure performance in a consistent manner with respect to pre-established standards, guidelines, factors, or other criteria. Sustainability assessment practitioners have developed an increasing variety of tools. The present paper discusses a range of fundamental approaches, as well as specific and integrated strategies for sustainability assessment, as the foundation of a new rating system being developed for large industrial projects. Assessment methods identified by different schemes are also described. The focus then shifts onto environmental and sustainable rating systems, emphasizing the more popular tools. The present work is thus a review of the status of sustainability development and its different assessment tools: approaches, strategies, models, appraisals, and methodologies. This work also presents a description of the credit weighting tool used by the most popular sustainability and environmental rating systems.

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Section: Assessment Methodsmentioning

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A Review of Sustainability Assessment and Sustainability/Environmental Rating Systems and Credit Weighting Tools

Poveda¹,

Lipsett²

2011

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111

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“…Therefore, a systematic inventory of all relevant information had to be made. This investigation was made with the help of a systematic list of relevant topics, by making also use of a general framework of economic meta-analysis (see for details van den Bergh et al, 1997). A closer investigation of the study reports led to a systematic overview of the relevant information contained in the study reports.…”

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Tourism, Marketing and Telecommunication: A Road Towards Regional Development

Nijkamp¹

2000

Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development

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“…meta-analysis. Metaanalysis aims to summarise results from previous studies in a (preferably) quantitative way so as to also allow for transferability of findings (see, for details Van den Bergh et al 1997). As a result of a more rigorous statistical -or at least analytical -underpinning, a synthesising process becomes more manageable and less vulnerable to subjective elements due to a more systematic investigation of early research findings.…”

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“…For this reason rough set analysis overlaps with other mathematical ideas developed to deal with imprecision and vagueness, such as fuzzy logic theory, the theory of evidence, and discriminant analysis. Other comparative analyses have discussed the links among these different mathematical concepts and have pointed out the intrinsic relationships of these methods with rough set analysis (see also Van den Bergh et al 1997). In recent applications it has become evident that rough set analysis can be applied as a powerful assessment policy method where imprecise information is classified and reduced to determine a coherent policy choice.…”

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Advances in Comparative Assessment Research in the Space-Economy

Nijkamp

2000

Advances in Spatial Science

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This paper aims to give a survey of recent assessment methods in spatial planning. The attention is focused on three classes of evaluation methods, viz. regime analysis, the flag model and rough set analysis. The various methods are discussed and their strengths and weaknesses are mutually compared. The paper is concluded with some retrospective and prospective remarks. Pn739'. 1. The Changing Scene of AssessmentDecision-making in a complex space-economy is fraught with many difficulties, as is witnessed by an abundance of cases in regional policy, transport planning and environmental management. These difficulties can partly be ascribed to lack of information (imprecise and incomplete data, insufficient knowledge base on long-range issues etc.), but also partly to the multidimensional conflict nature of modern regional, urban, transportation and environmental issues. Such conflicts may concern the trade-offs between different policy objectives, different interests among stakeholders in the space-economy, different competencies of decision levels, etc. (see also Nijkamp et al. 1992).Conflict resolution is of course a political action, but presupposes proper knowledge on the pros and cons of alternative choice possibilities. From an economic perspective, this would imply that all foreseeable costs and benefits of a planned initiative would have to be assessed. But in a broader context, also the social, cultural, environmental and safety aspects would have to be considered, as is clearly witnessed by e.g. plans to build a Trans European Network (TEN) or to develop sustainable tourism areas.Policy analysis offers an assessment and evaluation framework in the public sector with the goal to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of government decisions. In this sector in particular, a wide range of decisions is to be made without a clear reliance on the market system. This is partly caused by the nature of choices in the public sector (with emphasis on multi-actor democratic modes of decision-making) and partly by the complexity of government projects (with long-lasting and often uncertain implications). And it is indeed increasingly recognised that decisions based on market forces alone do not necessarily lead to optimal results. Structural market failures as well as unexpected external factors may require an efficient policy mechanism that is able to lay the foundation for an improvement of the actual socio-economic developments within a community or society (Rietveld and Bruinsma 1998). Clearly, the initiation of structural policies or the implementation of corrective measures is often not the responsibility of a single government agency, but rather may take place on several organisational levels ranging from local to supranational.In the past decades several methods have been developed and applied in policy analysis, in which a market evaluation played a prominent role. The most well-known example of such a market evaluation method is based on cost-benefit analysis (as an operational application of we...

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Meta-Analysis in Environmental Economics

Cited by 84 publications

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A Review of Sustainability Assessment and Sustainability/Environmental Rating Systems and Credit Weighting Tools

A Review of Sustainability Assessment and Sustainability/Environmental Rating Systems and Credit Weighting Tools

Tourism, Marketing and Telecommunication: A Road Towards Regional Development

Advances in Comparative Assessment Research in the Space-Economy

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