Costing environmental damage

An important step in determining what should be done about environmental damage is to value it and compare it with the cost of preventing the damage.

1. Using full cost accounting
2. Planning projects
3. Improving legislation against environmental pollution
4. Implementing economic appraisal for proposed development activities
5. Assessing environmental impacts
6. Analysing economic impacts

1. Conducting environmental site assessment

1. Revealing hidden environmental costs of economic production
2. Protecting the environment from contamination
3. Protecting global environment
4. Protecting against hazards to human health in the natural environment
5. Protecting against environmental hazards from industry
6. Protecting against environmental hazards from agricultural and pastoral activities
7. Managing tourism for both recreation and conservation
8. Internalizing the environment and health costs of transport systems
9. Developing integrated environmental frameworks
10. Designing for environment

1. Strengthening national environmental data assessment capabilities
2. Researching economics of conservation
3. Internalizing environmental costs
4. Integrating biodiversity concerns into liability mechanisms
5. Improving methodologies for estimating environmental costs
6. Establishing comprehensive environmental law system
7. Cooperating on cost-effect analysis and environmental impact procedures

1. Recognizing environmental resource base for economic activity
2. Measuring sustainability

1. Unaccountability of institutions degrading the environment
2. Social environmental degradation from recreation and tourism
3. Incompatibility of environmental and economic decision-making
4. Inadequate evaluation of environmental costs
5. Inadequate economic statistics
6. Failure to take account of externalities of systems
7. Environmental stress of natural systems
8. Environmental pollution
9. Environmental degradation due to creation of dams
10. Environmental degradation

1. Damage