Data summarizing monitoring and evaluation for three European environmental policies in 9 cases across Europe

Abstract

The data presented in this DiB article provide an overview of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) carried out for 3 European environmental policies (the Water Framework Directive, the Natura 2000 network of protected areas, and Agri-Environment Schemes implemented under the Common Agricultural Policy), as implemented in 9 cases (Catalonia (Spain), Estonia, Finland, Flanders (Belgium), Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Scotland (UK), Sweden). These data are derived from reports and documents about monitoring programs that were publicly-available online in 2017. The literature on M&E to support adaptive management structured the issues that have been extracted and summarized. The data is related to the research article entitled “Policy-driven monitoring and evaluation: does it support adaptive management of socio-ecological systems?” [Stem et al., 2005] . The information provides a first overview of monitoring and evaluation that has been implemented in response to key European environmental policies. It provides a structured overview that permits a comparison of cases and policies and can assist other scholars and practitioners working on monitoring and evaluation.

Nordic hydrological frontier in the 21st century

“…The application of space observations like InSAR has the potential to improve our assessment of Nordic water resources and their changes. Despite this data being mostly freely available in the Nordic countries (in contrast to many other European countries) (Waylen et al 2019a(Waylen et al , 2019b, it is still not taken full advantage of for studying Nordic water resources and ecosystems, one obstacle being their large data storage capacities and processing time requirements. Furthermore, there is still little information of climate change influences on ET at the Nordic scale despite its key control on the water balance.…”