Equivalency Methods for Environmental Liability

Part I. Legal and Technical Overview

1. The Environmental Liability Directive: Legal Background and Requirements
Edward H. P. Brans

2. Resource Equivalency Methods in the European Union: A ‘Toolkit’ for Calculating Environmental Liability
Joshua Lipton, Ece Özdemiroğlu, Kate LeJeune, Jennifer Peers

Part II. Resource Equivalency Analysis: Technical Approaches

3. Step 1: Performing an Initial Evaluation
Joshua Lipton, Kate LeJeune

4. Step 2: Determining and Quantifying Environmental Damage
Joshua Lipton, Kate LeJeune

5. Step 3: Determining and Quantifying Remediation Benefits
Joshua Lipton, Kate LeJeune

6. Step 4: Scaling Complementary and Compensatory Remediation
David Chapman, Joshua Lipton

7. Step 5: Monitoring and Reporting
Diana Lane, Kate LeJeune, Joshua Lipton

8. Economic Valuation for Equivalency Analysis
David Chapman, Scott Cole, Ece Özdemiroğlu

Part III. Case Studies

9. The Vistula River Crossing in Poland
Joshua Lipton, Zenon Tederko, Eric English, Magdalena Kiejzik-Głowińska

10. Ex-Ante Analysis of a Hypothetical International Road Construction Project in Poland
Joshua Lipton, Zenon Tederko, Eric English

11. Severe Wildfire in a Mediterranean Forest
Roberto Molowny-Horas, Armonía Borrego, Pere Riera, Josep Maria Espelta

12. Water Abstraction from the River Itchen, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Jonathan Cox, Ece Özdemiroğlu

13. Calculating Damage to Alpine Brown Trout Using Equivalency Analysis
Jamie V. Holmes, Joshua Lipton

Nyckelord: Environment, Environmental Management, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Nature Conservation, Environmental Economics