I am working on the EPI-Water project with about 25 people from 11 institutions in 9 EU states. We are studying the impact of economic policy instruments (EPIs) on water outcomes.
In January, we met in Berlin to discuss the outcomes from the first year, during which time we produced an "Assessment Framework" (AF) for evaluating the impact of EPIs on three criteria (economic, environmental, distributional), as mitigated by four factors (institutions, transaction costs, policy implementation, uncertainty).
We then used the AF to examine the performance of 30 case studies (20 in the EU and 10 abroad). I worked on two case studies, one on groundwater taxes in the Netherlands and another on implementing water metering in England and Wales [PDF].
I recommend the AF [PDF] to anyone interested in understanding policy performance with and without an EPI.
I recorded some presentations at the conference:
In January, we met in Berlin to discuss the outcomes from the first year, during which time we produced an "Assessment Framework" (AF) for evaluating the impact of EPIs on three criteria (economic, environmental, distributional), as mitigated by four factors (institutions, transaction costs, policy implementation, uncertainty).
We then used the AF to examine the performance of 30 case studies (20 in the EU and 10 abroad). I worked on two case studies, one on groundwater taxes in the Netherlands and another on implementing water metering in England and Wales [PDF].
I recommend the AF [PDF] to anyone interested in understanding policy performance with and without an EPI.
I recorded some presentations at the conference:
- My ten minute presentation on the AF [9MB MP3]
- Presentations on institutions, transaction costs and policy implementation [138MB MP3] over 2.5 hours by Colin Green [PPT], Jennifer Moeller-Gulland [PPTX], Mike Young [PPT] and me [PPT].
- There was also an interesting panel on innovation in the water sector (I recommend skipping the first 25 minutes of the 90 min recording [32MB MP3], since those are taken by Colin's musings rather than contributions from the panel).
1 comment:
Many thanks David,
This also reminds me that we (at Ecologic) also reported the event in our own web page. Please have a look at: http://ecologic.eu/4598
It contains web links to all the relevant material (including the proceedings of the conference), our presentations and some pics.
Finally, juts in case anyone is interested, all presentations of the event can be found in the EPI-water project web site: http://www.feem-project.net/epiwater/pages/events/120126/02prog.html.
Regards
Manuel
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