Europe's floodplains once covered wide stretches along European rivers and were valued for their high ecological importance. Over a number of years they have been cleared for agricultural purposes and changed through urban expansion and artificial flood control structures. Existing natural water...
Four EU Member States – United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland and Hungary participated in a pilot project to explore the potential of a European partnership to address the key challenges in disaster risk management through providing a platform for integrated and coherent multi-disciplinary scientific ...
The present paper provides a meta-analysis of agricultural landscape valuation studies and, through the estimated benefit transfer function, projects the value of EU landscape. The analyses are based on information from more than thirty European and non-European studies which use a stated prefer...
The European Environment Agency requires information on the environment at European level, based on collection by a stable network of institutions and on other reliable data sources. This report is the result of a first analysis of sources holding datasets on species' habitats and sites. Informa...