Basic feedback model of environmental monitoring and evaluation (for example used in environmental impact assessment)

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Basic feedback model of environmental monitoring
and evaluation (for example used in environmental
impact assessment)

• Environmental principles and regulatory standards

Mitigation, enforcement, sanctioning
evaluation
Behaviour of individual and collective actors
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Model of reflexive governance for environmental
monitoring and evaluation
Revision of incentive politics and regulatory
standards
Multi-criteria environmental indicators (ecologica
l, socio-economic and legal-institutional) 
permanent process of data gathering
Environmental principles and regulatory standards
Information on multiple values and cognitive
backgrounds produced by the context
Building capacity for consensus building in
collective bargaining
Contextual interpretation of the principles by
different social groups
Environmental conditionality in regulatory tools
for new member countries / candidate countries
Behaviour of individual and collective actors 
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Multi-criteria environmental indicators
Drivers change in production practices
Pressures ecosystems health (pollution, etc.)
State ecosystems, species, genetic
Impacts I Environmental Impacts (water sanitation, carbon sequestration)
Impacts II Socio-economic impacts
Responses Institutional and legal responses
Productive capacity of ecosystems
Ecosystems health
Ecosystems diversity
Species diversity
Genetic diversity
Maintenance of water and soil resources
Contribution to global carbon cycles
Consumption of ecosystems products (wood, etc.)
employment
Recreation and tourism
Investment in forest sector or other ecosystems
Cultural services
Legal framework
Institutional framework
Economic policies
Capacity to monitor and measure
Environmental conditionality in regulatory tools
for new member countries / candidate countries
Regulatory Tools Type of environmental conditionality
PAC second pillar ex. prevention of abandonment of HNV farmland Agro-environmental measures
Structural Funds Restructuring forestry and agriculture
Cohesion Fund ex. Promoting tourism in mountain forests Reduce economic and social disparities Reforestation and nature conservation
World Bank Ex. Forest Banking (institutional reorganization of forests) Institutional reorganisation of forests
Agri-environmental indicators
Forest process
Example of interactions Are the tools
well-targeted ? Identifying new regulatory tools
that are needed Alternative possibilities for
compromise amongst indicators in regulatory tools
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Examples of interaction (detailed)

• Examples of questions to be addressed
• Are the different tools well-targeted (for
  instance the indicators could show a demand for
  cultural services not met by any tool) ?
• Could we structure the information on the
  reporting (annual reports submitted by the
  beneficiaries of the structural funds) in way
  that the gathered information (for instance on
  restructuring forestry) provide relevant data to
  the pan European forestry process
• How to select tool appropriate for the situation
  ? (what tool best fits my situation ?)
• Do I use all the possible subsidy schemes that
  could benefit my situation (the data gathering on
  the indicators could reveal an ecosystems
  services (such as water sanitation by forests)
  for which I could apply for subsidies to a
  certain tool)).

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Comments and bibliography to the model

• Table 1 indicators used by the Pan European
  forest process similar indicators are developed
  in the Montreal Process, cf. National Report on
  Sustainable Forests, USDA
• National reports to the Pan European Process have
  been submitted by Albania and Rumania
• Table 2 DPSIR model developed by Eurostat for
  its environmental monitoring program cf.
  Towards Environmental Pressure indictors for the
  EU, p. 5, 1999
• A detailed model of indicators based on the DPSIR
  model has been developed for agro-environmental
  indicators, cf. Environmental risks for
  agriculture in Europe, p. 22