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Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts (CREEA) (CREEA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

The main idea behind this project is to refine and elaborate economic and environmental accounting principles as discussed in the London Group and consolidated in the future SEEA 2012, to test them in practical data gathering, to troubleshoot and refine approaches, and show added value of having such harmonized data available via case studies. This will be done in priority areas mentioned in the c ...
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InContext: Individuals in Context: Supportive Environments for Sustainable Living (InContext)

Start date: Oct 15, 2010, End date: Oct 14, 2013,

InContext will investigate drivers and barriers for sustainability and their interplay on an individual and collective level. InContext assumes that both individual and collective behaviours respond to an external context (like social norms, policies, and infrastructure) and an internal context (like needs, values and priorities). So far, initiatives to further sustainable development have focused ...
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One Planet Economy Network: Europe (OPEN: EU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

"The goal of the One Planet Economy Network Europe project (OPEN: EU) is to help transform the EU economy to a One Planet Economy by 2050. As the world’s largest economy, Europe must embark upon an immediate and major transformation to avert dangerous climate change and prevent ecosystem collapse. Currently, the impact of the European economy is nearly three times larger than what is required for ...
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Partnering to Enhance Civil Society Organisations’ Contribution to Research in Sustainable Consumption & Production (CSOCONTRIBUTION2SCP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

Some relative decoupling of economic growth from materials and energy consumption has been achieved in many EU countries during the past decade. However, this did not lead to an absolute decrease in environmental pressures, because absolute resource use has been generally remained steady over the past two decades. Moreover, due to the ‘rebound effect’, it is unlikely that resource use can be reduc ...
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CSO Engagement with Ecological Economics (CEECEC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Ecological economics (EE) and, in general, sustainability sciences make important contributions to the analyses of sustainability policies in Europe and worldwide. EE develops physical indicators and indices, provides economic valuation of environmental services and negative externalities, applies tools of multi-criteria evaluation to resource use, and promotes environmental policy instruments su ...
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