Equivalency methods for environmental liability : assessing damage and compensation under the European environmental liability directive / Joshua Lipton, Ece Ozdemiroglu, David Chapman, Jennifer Peers, editors.
The Environmental Liability Directive: Legal Background and Requirements -- Resource Equivalency Methods in the European Union: A Toolkit for Calculating Environmental Liability -- Step 1: Performing an Initial Evaluation -- Step 2: Determining and Quantifying Environmental Damage -- Step 3: Determining and Quantifying Remediation Benefits -- Step 4: Scaling Complementary and Compensatory Remediation -- Step 5: Monitoring and Reporting -- Economic Valuation for Equivalency Analysis -- The Vistula River Crossing in Poland -- Ex-Ante Analysis of a Hypothetical International Road Construction Project in Poland -- Severe Wildfire in a Mediterranean Forest -- Water Abstraction from the River Itchen, Hampshire, United Kingdom -- Calculating Damage to Alpine Brown Trout Using Equivalency Analysis.
Summary:
"The book is the only technical volume that explains how equivalency analysis methods mentioned in Annex II of the European Environmental Liability Directive should be implemented. It uses case studies to illustrate real world application of the methods, which are based on the experience in the USA and in the European Union and have been tested in three years of training programs funded by the European Commission"--Back cover.
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