Trends and Challenges for Environmental-Ecologic Indicators and Assessments

Last December, within the framework of the FP7 project E-Frame, FEEM hosted the Environmental Indicators Workshop organized by FEEM with the support of the University of Siena. The workshop aimed to give an overview of the current state of the art of environmental indicators, presenting drawbacks of the past approaches, strengths of new methodologies and the challenges ahead. It was structured into three thematic sessions. The first focused on the technicalities in constructing environmental indicators with a particular emphasis on the ecological perspective; the second analysed environmental indicators as part of an integrated economic-environmental account and of the natural capital concept. The final session explored environmental indicators in the wider dimension of policy evaluation and policy making