The aim of this paper is to give a long term sustainability perspective on instrumentation in environmental policy, within a broad, also strategic, evaluative framework. To arrive at integrated insight, the basic function of policy instruments is discussed: why do you need them at all and how...

In the post‐war years of fast economic growth extensive government regulations to curb growing environmental problems were developed in most Western countries. This regulative activity was directed primarily at larger fixed industrial installations with locally identifiable environmental...

Environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) tables and models have become a powerful element in supporting information-based environmental and economic policies. Briefly stated, monetary input-output (IO) tables give insight into the value of economic transactions between different sectors in...

In this project, seven operational weighting sets have been selected and have been applied to the intervention profiles of the EU28, the World and the Netherlands, not on time series. Three sets are available for the weighting applied on midpoint level. Three sets are available for the weighting...

This report presents the first part of the work carried out towards the development of a scheme for weighting indicators across the impact categories (climate change, acidification, resource depletion, human cancer effects, and others) that are commonly considered in life cycle assessment....