BACKGROUND The OECD countries have recently promoted policies of deinstitutionalisation and community-based care for the elderly. These policies respond to common cost pressures associated with population aging, and the challenge of providing improved care for the elderly. They aim to substitute less costly services for institutional ones, to improve patient satisfaction and decrease expenses. ...

Insect host range affects risk assessment for biological control agents of weeds and invasive insects, including the cost benefit analyses that are used for determining government responses to new incursions, and for justifying biological control introductions against weeds. This project had three objectives, starting with an examination of scientific contradictions between predictions and fiel...

The aim of the System Dynamics Model ESCOT is to describe a path towards a sustainable transport system in Germany and to assess its economic impacts. ESCOT was developed within the environmentally sustainable transport (EST) project of the OECD that was designed to consider the ecological and technical aspects of a transition towards sustainable transportation. ESCOT comprises five models: the...

The current energy scenario should be examined from a global perspective and include models for optimizing the development of major renewable sources. complex structural elements such in terms structure consumption economic environmental benefits, as well minimize costs negative consequences. At crisis stage, access to sources is an important asset progress world all states. depletion natural r...

ISO developed, with the support of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, a methodology for the assessment and quantification of the economic benefits of standards with the objective to quantify the impacts of standards on organizations and to allow the comparison between the assessment results of different organizations. This paper systematically reviews the basic Conditions of the ISO research p...

Previous studies have found the assessment of socio-economic impacts in EIA to be of poor quality and literature cites various reasons for this. However, socio-economic impacts can result from many types of development project and they are often interlinked with biophysical impacts making their proper assessment important. The barriers and constraints to their assessment are analysed, through a...

Citation: Fleskens L, Kirkby MJ and Irvine BJ (2016) The PESERA-DESMICE Modeling Framework for Spatial Assessment of the Physical Impact and Economic Viability of Land Degradation Mitigation Technologies. Front. Environ. Sci. 4:31. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00031 The PESERA-DESMICE Modeling Framework for Spatial Assessment of the Physical Impact and Economic Viability of Land Degradation Mitigati...

The upsurge of interest in watershed management and planning has increased the need for user friendly, interactive methods that decision makers can use to evaluate the economic and environmental consequences of alternative land use/management practices (LUMPs). Knowledge and information from several disciplines are integrated into a functional computer-based watershed management decision suppor...