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TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers

Author/Contact:

UNEP TEEB OFFICE

11-13 Chemin des Anémones
1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland

Email: TEEB@unep.org

Tel: +41 (0)22 917 8879

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Resource description:

TEEB for Local and Regional Policy Makers calls on local policy makers to understand the value of their natural capital and the services it provides and apply a focus on nature's benefits in local policy areas such as urban management, spatial planning and protected areas management.

Requirements:

  • The report aims to provide an inspiring starting point for thinking local policy in a new way. Highlighting practicality, the report calls for local authorities to take a stepwise approach to assessing options that factor nature's benefits into local poli

Advantages:

  • The report describes an approach: assessing ecosystem services and expected changes in their availability and distribution
  • identifying which ecosystem services are most relevant to particular policy issues
  • assessing impacts of policy options on different groups in the community.

Constraints:

  • Published in 2010 the report supports a costed 2012 document aimed at the same audience

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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