Policy Makers and Planners

The products and services we have provided to policy makers include:

Sustainability Assessment

• Sustainability theory and measurement
• Development of decision support tools for tracking progress toward sustainable development
• Application of quantitative techniques to sustainability issues – input-output analysis, factorisation analysis, multi variate statistical techniques (e.g. principal components analysis, Divisia analysis).

Impact Assessment

• Ecological footprinting of environmental resources, wastes and emissions for communities, individuals
• Lifecycle assessment of products, processes and industry activities
• Integrated economic, social and environmental impact assessment

Indicators

• State of the environment reporting
• Indicator definition, development and implementation

Resource Accounting

• Environmental accounting of natural resources and wastes/emissions/pollutants for local authorities
• Urban metabolism, industrial ecology and materials flow analysis

Policy Evaluation

• Policy evaluation and monitoring in a holistic way that captures the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability
• Evaluation of policy options in terms of energy efficiency and material requirements
• Evaluation of climate change impacts on infrastructure

Valuation

• Ecosystem service and biodiversity valuation

Scenario Analysis

• Modelling of complex dynamic economic-ecological and energy systems
• Scenario analysis using systems dynamics modelling