MINIMA-SUD: Methologies for Integrating Impact Assessment in the Field of Sustainable Development, for European Commission, DG Research
The project puts forward a methodology for integrating impact assessment in the field of sustainable development. The areas covered are climate change, impacts on health, buildings, agriculture and eco-systems, transport, economic impacts and energy-related issues. At the heart of the approach lies the construction of a tool for policy integration incorporating hedging on a large number of objectives. To achieve its goals, the project will involve definition of measurable sustainable development indicators and selection of appropriate policy instruments for influencing these indicators, development of tools for representing the entire chain from the instrument to the indicator for the above mentioned areas, evaluation of the cost of applying these instruments, development of reduced form stochastic models of the instrument-to-indicator chain and impact analysis with the aid of a policy integration tool to be developed. The results of the analysis will be used for integrated policy exploration, possibly with the participation of Commission personnel that could be involved as surrogate decision makers.
Project Coordinator
E3M-Lab, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of National Technical University of Athens (ICCS/NTUA)
Partners
- The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO)
- Équipe de Recherche en Analyse des Systèmes et Modélisation Économique (ERASME)
- Centre for European Economic Research GmbH (ZEW)
- OXFORD University
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