The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...

The present expansion of environmental standards and regulations in industrialised countries can have significant impacts on the market access of developing countries. The fear in many developing countries is that stricter product standards in the markets of developed countries will act as trade...

The study builds on the EU Adaptation Strategy (EC, 2013a) and the Green Paper on the insurance of natural and man-made disasters (EC, 2013b), and addresses the objective of encouraging the use of insurance to manage weather and climate-related disaster risk. More specifically, the study...

This study assesses if there are differences in the costs of implementation of EU environmental law across Member States. Identifying differences can show where there is scope for best practice to be adopted to cut costs. This study is relevant for the Regulatory Fitness and Performance...