Publications
IEEP produces reports and publications on a wide variety of topics.
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Public Goods and Public Intervention in Agriculture
What is the justification for spending a substantial sum on supporting agriculture in Europe? Is the principle public money for public goods? If so, what are the public goods, how ...
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Farmland Abandonment in the EU: an Assessment of Trends and Prospects
Assessment of recent agricultural abandonment in the EU and its causes, and likely future abandonment according to expected trends in drivers
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Valuing and Conserving Ecosystem Services: a Scoping Case Study in the Danube Basin
The report for WWF provides an assessment of the value and status of some key ecosystem services in the Danube Basin, and some policy instruments to support them.
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Linking the Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive
Integrating pollution control into river basin management is a major challenge. A new report for IMPEL explores how EU addresses this interaction.
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Wednesday, 08 December 2010
Challenges of Developing an EU Strategic Approach to Water Scarcity
The introduction in 2000 of the Water Framework Directive provided the first coherent EU legal tool to address water scarcity and this has been supported by further policy aimed directly at ...
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Thursday, 11 November 2010
The Indirect Land Use Change Impact of the Use of Biofuels in the EU
A new IEEP report analyses the indirect land use change (ILUC) impact of the substantial additional biofuel usage that will be generated up to 2020 by the targets under the EU renewable energy Directive. The report has recently been updated to include all 27 NREAPs.
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Monday, 25 October 2010
IEEP Newsletter, Autumn 2010
The IEEP Quarterly Newsletter offers a readily accessible update on recent work and achievements, areas of interest and events. Current and recently completed projects are set out under key subject headings.
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Wednesday, 06 October 2010
The Cost of Policy Inaction - the Case of not Meeting the 2010 Biodiversity Target - Executive Summary
This Summary presents the results of the study of “The Cost of Policy Inaction (COPI): The case of not meeting the 2010 biodiversity target”...
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Wednesday, 06 October 2010
Costs and Socio-Economic Benefits associated with the Natura 2000 Network
The study on the costs and benefits of Natura 2000 undertaken by IEEP and partners was designed to support the European Commission in obtaining an accurate estimate of the costs of managing the network compared to its benefits ...
Sonja Gantioler Samuela Bassi Marianne Kettunen A.J. McConville Patrick ten Brink Matt Rayment Ruta Landgrebe Holger GerdesDownload document PDF 2.2 MB -
Monday, 04 October 2010
Drowning in Process? The Implementation of the EU's 6th Environmental Action Programme
This study evaluates the implementation of the 6EAP across all four of its ‘key environmental priorities’...
Marc Pallemaerts David Wilkinson Catherine Bowyer James Brown Andrew Farmer Martin Farmer Martina Herodes Peter Hjerp Clare Miller Claire Monkhouse Ian Skinner Patrick ten Brink Camilla AdelleDownload document PDF 530.2 KB -
Thursday, 02 September 2010
Strategies and Instruments for Climate Proofing the EU Budget - Interim Report
The EU budget is one option in the EU's tool box to deliver policy results. There is a growing view among policy stakeholders that the future EU budget should not only dedicte targeted spending to climate change mitigation and adaptation actions but also horizontally integrate climate change measures across all spending areas...
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Friday, 13 August 2010
EEA Report Highlights Abandonment and Intensification Threats to Mountain Areas
IEEP Analysis Briefing: Agriculture and Rural Development
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010
IEEP Newsletter, Summer 2010
The IEEP Quarterly Newsletter offers a readily accessible update on recent work and achievements, areas of interest and events...
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Friday, 30 July 2010
Bio-waste Directive: the Journey so Far
IEEP Analysis Briefing: Sustainable Consumption and Production
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Thursday, 15 July 2010
Financing Natura 2000. Stakeholder Conference
The European Conference on Financing Natura 2000 was jointly organised by IEEP, the Ecologic Institute and GHK ...
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Paper 2: Scoping the Development of the Environmentally Sustainable Production Agenda
This paper sets out the key issues and questions that need to be considered for the establishment of a Sustainable Production Agenda for Europe and explores the implications of these issues for the development ...
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Thursday, 01 July 2010
Paper 3: Developing a More Comprehensive Rationale for EU Funding for the Environment
This paper evaluates the case for using state intervention to reverse existing environmental degradation and deliver improvements, before focusing specifically on the rationale for intervening at the European ...
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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Paper 1: Achieving a transition away from CAP direct payments
This paper examines a range of transitional arrangements that could facilitate a shift in the basis of CAP payments away from the current system of support, towards one based on a rationale more focused ...
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Friday, 25 June 2010
Working Group Defines List of Critical Raw Materials for the EU
IEEP Analysis Briefing: Sustainable Consumption and Production
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Friday, 25 June 2010
European Parliament Adopts Resolution on Europe 2020 Strategy
IEEP Analysis Briefing: Strategic EU Affairs
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