Objective To provide monetary and physical estimates of environmental impacts of economic and social activities, with the object of including these in an EU-wide environmental accounting framework usable by policy makers, both at the national and community level.OBJECTIVES: To provide monetary and physical estimates of environmental impacts of economic and social activities, with the object of including these in an EU-wide environmental accounting framework usable by policy makers, both at the national and community level. DESCRIPTION: The research is carried out in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and focuses on: i) the development of a methodology for the valuation and construction of environmental accounts appropriate to the needs of policy-makers. This entails intensive discussion with policy makers who use, or would like to use, environmental accounts; ii) the estimation of environmental impacts at the national level in physical and monetary terms. The research here involves the updating and improving of these estimates as well as making sure that the valuations are consistent; iii) the preparation of estimates of the damage attributable to different sources (energy, transport, industry); iv) the estimation of "defensive expenditures" (i.e. expenditures undertaken to mitigate the impacts of pollution) in each country and the establishment of a framework common to the estimates of damage; v) the replicability of the estimates across the EU are assessed, using a standardized framework. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmonetary and financesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution Programme(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 04 - Human dimensions of environmental change Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF BATH EU contribution No data Address Claverton Down BATH United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI Italy EU contribution No data Address Corso Magenta 63 MILANO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Natural Environment Research Council United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Windermere Road LA11 6JU Grange-Over-Sands - Cumbria See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART Germany EU contribution No data Address Hessbruehlstrasse, 49 a 70565 STUTTGART See on map Total cost No data United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Harwell Laboratory OX11 0RA Didcot See on map Total cost No data VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM - VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERWIJS Netherlands EU contribution No data Address De Boelelaan 1115 1081 HV AMSTERDAM See on map Total cost No data