Identifying Tools for Sustainability Assessments

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1 Identifying Tools for Sustainability Assessments Anneke von Raggamby Ecologic Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam

2 The broader picture Political context: Better Sustainable Development Regluation Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 2

3 The broader picture Resources in terms of......personel......money......time......often limited affecting quality of IAs Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 3

4 The broader picture Stakeholder involvement Early in policy cycle Quantitative assessment x Highlight broad lines of expected impacts Late in policy cycle Expert exercise Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 4

5 Assessment frameworks ecologic.de Participatory tools Which tools are Conventional available? IT based Electronic focus groups TIDDD EU impact assessment Consensus conference Environmental impact assessment Repertory grid technique Strategic environmental assessment Interactive backcasting Focus groups Integrated sustainability assessment / Transition management Delphi Survey In-depth interviews Citizen s jury Scenario tools Trends Cross Impact Relevance trees and morphologic analysis Modelling, simulating, gaming Interactive brainstorming Scenario workshops Integrated foresight manage-ment model Ranking method Participatory tools Multi-criteria analysis tools Compensatory Partial compensatory Non compensatory IT based Multi-attribute value theory Weighted summation Conventional Analytic hierarchy process PROME-THEE NAIADE Regime Dominance method Electr. focus groups Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis tools Cost-benefit analysis and monetary evaluation tools TIDDD Travel costs Hedonic pricing Accounting tools, physical analysis tools and indicator sets Accounting tools Physical analysis tools Ecological footprint Focus groups Model tools Family of socioeconomic Delphi Survey General economy Repertory grid Measure of economic techn. welfare Interactive backcasting Consensus conf. Indepth interv. Family of bio-physical Climate Family of integrated Citizens jury Land use Costs of illness Contingent valuation Sustainable national income Global land use accounting Demo-graphic Biogeochemical Integrated assessment Averting expenditures Market methods Costeffectiveness analysis Contingent behaviour Conjoint choice questions Genuine savings NAMEA ISEW Economywide MFA Lifecycle analysis Public health Partial economy Hydrology Qualitative system analysis Scenario building and planning tools Indicator sets Indicator sets for assessments Indicator sets for vulnerability assessments Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 5

6 The Jungle of tools from outside (theory) from inside (practice) Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 6

7 Which tools are wanted (interviews)? Tools should be......flexible, easy to adapt to a given policy & circumstances...up-to date...suitable to be combined (blind spots). Tools should reliably show main tendencies that is whether the proposal will help to achieve the objectives or not. Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 7

8 Which tools are used (interviews)? Category Tool/method/procedure Comparing impacts of different CBA options CEA quite low by COM DOs MCA Dealing with Risk & uncertainty Scenario analysis Risk Assessment Assessment of impacts CGE Models Macro-economic Sector-based economic System Models LCA Integrated Assessment Models energy Participatory tools or transport Focus policy) Groups/Electronic focus groups Consensus conference Interactive backcasting Tools for dialogue Repertory grid technique Other tools Bibliometrics Innovation indicators Historical approach Demand for formal tools & methods generally Most popular tools are CBA, CEA, modelling If tool use is extended then these are often which are of sectoral character (e.g. Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 8

9 Which tools are needed (interviews)? We don't need new tools just better consolidation of what we already have (Commission Desk Officer) Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 9

10 Problems of tool use in practice? Availability of data, methodological gaps in quantifying environmental / social impacts & tendency to only accept quantitative results qualitative impacts or those which are difficult to quantify are difficult to show though they may be as or even more severe than those easy to quantify (usually economic effects) Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 10

11 Problems of tool use in practice? The environment is preceived to be in a politically weak position, therefore pro env DGs find themselves under pressure to use quantification as much as possible to press their case More tool use at environmental IA level will not necessarily make the environment more politically salient Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 11

12 A shift in IA needed? Stakeholder involvement Early in policy cycle x Quantitative assessments x Highlight broad lines of expected impacts Late in policy cycle Expert exercise Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam 12

13 Anneke von Raggamby Ecologic, Pfalzburger Str , D Berlin , www. Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, January, Amsterdam