Veronika Kiss

EcosystemEvaluation carried out a socio-eonomic impact assessment of the A2J EARL project. The project aims to improve how EU environmental law is used and enforced, by raising people’s awareness of their right to go to court when environmental laws are broken.

The EU’s environmental policies are among the most comprehensive ones at the international level. In spite of this, their proper implementation is often lagging behind. Experience throughout the EU Member States suggests that public authorities alone cannot address this deficit in implementation. Accordingly, empowered citizens and trained actors representing the entire legal chain with extended knowledge about access to justice are vital to enable more effective implementation – something that the A2J EARL project focused on.

EcosystemEvaluation carried out the project’s socio-eonomic impact assessment. [Read more…] about Measuring the impact of access to justice for a greener Europe project

EcosystemEvaluation conducted a baseline ecosystem services assessment on the Hungarian sites of the LIFE4OAKForest project to reveal the current conditions of the ecosystem services found on the project areas. We carried out our assessment before the conservation management actions in order to investigate the current conditions and to be able to comparably map the overall project impact on ecosystem services after the project’s completion. We  assessed biomass as a provisioning service, carbon sequestration, pest control and habitat maintenance as regulating and maintenance services. In case you are interested in the assessment results, contact us.

At 2019’s Sziget Festival, we presented our work at the Green Sziget section on how the Sziget Festival impacts its environment of the Óbuda island. We analysed aspects of the island’s vegetation, soil and bird species (as indicator species of ecosystems) and collected cases on how other festivals world-wide consider their environment and mitigate their impacts. In case, you are interested in our resuls, contact us.

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