Assessing Environmental and Resource Costs in the Water Framework Directive

The Case of Germany

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Citation: Görlach, Benjamin and Eduard Interwies 2004: Assessing Environmental and Resource Costs in the Water Framework Directive. The Case of Germany. Ecologic, Berlin.

Görlach, Benjamin and Eduard Interwies 2004: Assessing Environmental and Resource Costs in the Water Framework Directive. The Case of Germany. Ecologic, Berlin.

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The implementation of the Water Framework Directive is one of the main items in the field of environmental protection. As a main novelty, the Directive foresees the integration of economic aspects into water-related decision making. However, current practice in Germany does not always match the definitions and approaches for economic evaluation developed at EU level, as Benjamin Görlach and Eduard Interwies note in this article "What is the Value of Water? Assessing Environmental and Resource Costs in the Water Framework Directive."

Was ist Wasser wert?

Die Ermittlung von Umwelt- und Ressourcenkosten nach der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie

Year 2005

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The valuation of environmental and resource costs plays a central role for the implementation of the EC Water Framework Directive (WFD). Benjamin Görlach and Eduard Interwies investigated many of the economic aspects – such as the cost recovery for water services, incentive pricing for water, or the selection of cost-effective measures. The study to the German Federal Environmental Agency was published.

Environmental and Resource Costs in the Water Framework Directive: the Case of Germany

Dec 2003 - Sep 2004

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Languages: German

English
Authorship: Benjamin Görlach

Eduard Interwies
Funding: German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Published by: Ecologic Institute, Germany
Year: 2004
Dimension: 24 pp.
Project: Environmental and Resource Costs in the Water Framework Directive: the Case of Germany
Project ID: 1970-01
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

1 Introduction
2 The Conclusions of the DG Eco 2
3 The DG Eco 2 Conclusions: Implications for Germany
3.1 Treatment of Environmental and Resource Costs at Political Level
3.2 Treatment of Environmental and Resource Costs at Academic Level
4 Linkage of the DG Eco 2 Conclusions with the Selection of Measures
4.1 The Role of Environmental and Resource Costs in Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Measures
4.2 The Cost of Measures as a Proxy for Environmental and Resource Costs
4.3 Cost Recovery as a Source of Funding for the Programme of Measures
5 Conclusions
6 Literature
Keywords: Water

Water Framework Directive, Common Implementation Strategy, environmental costs, resource costs, externalities,
internalisation, programme of measures, cost-effectiveness, combinations of measures, direct costs, indirect costs

Germany

Source URL: https://www.ecologic.eu/12127