Natural Capital Indicators for OECD countries
This report on biodiversity indicators describes the methods used and
results obtained during a short feasibility study carried out by UNEP-WCMC
for the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
in The Netherlands.
The
objective of the project was to test further the possibility of using
data already available and a consistent methodology in order to generate
reliable high level indicators of change in biodiversity.
The
report attempts to address change over time within the OECD area in ecosystem
quantity and quality, these last being parameters of the Natural Capital
Index framework developed by RIVM in the context of the Convention on
Biological Diversity. Ecosystem quality is here represented by change
in species populations, using a new method first developed by UNEP-WCMC
for the WWF Living Planet Report 1998. Key elements from the present feasibility
study have been incorporated in a document Biodiversity indicators for
the OECD Environmental Outlook and Strategy soon to be published by RIVM.
The
full version of the final report
has now been made available in Adobe PDF format. 
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