Built Environment Resources

The sector encompassing the basic physical systems of a business or nation; transportation, communication, sewage, water and electric systems are all examples of infrastructure. This sector also includes infrastructure, construction, and real estate. Built environment encompasses the activities of design, construction, and management of human made surroundings, including buildings, infrastructure, parks, etc.
286 - 300 of 442 Results Why these search results?

This Practitioner’s Guide reaches out to provide practitioners and decision-makers with the skills necessary to make an economic case for preventing or reversing land... Read More

General result

EVRI

Calculator / Equations / Formula | Free

The Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory is a searchable storehouse of empirical studies on the economic value of environmental assets and human health... Read More

The Environmental Value Look-Up (EVL) Tool is a searchable database which contains indicative monetary values for a range of environmental impacts. The unit values in the... Read More

This first-of-its-kind framework enables companies to consider the actual benefits and value of the ecosystem services they depend upon and impact, giving them new... Read More

MiLCA is a life cycle assessment (LCA) support system. The default database supports users to quantify an amount of water and other abiotic resources use and emissions... Read More

General result

LIFE Methodology

Framework / Guidelines | Free

LIFE Methodology aims to establish the minimum performance that each organization/producer must achieve in biodiversity and ecosystem services conservation actions,... Read More

General result

Biodiversity Footprint Tool

Calculator / Equations / Formula | Free

This tool enables a business to measure its impact on biodiversity based on the two major pressure factors ‘Land use’ (type of management and number of hectares) and... Read More

Crossing LCA analysis and biodiversity impacts of products, the PBF project aims to answer the lack of specific tool to assess their impact on biodiversity.

The GHG Calculator assesses the level of reduction of GHG emissions from bio-based products such as biofuels and bioplastics against a fossil fuel baseline.  The tool uses... Read More

In response to the need for incorporating quantified and spatially explicit measures of social values into ecosystem service assessments, the geographic information system... Read More

The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) IS a structured methodology that helps managers proactively develop strategies to manage business risks and opportunities... Read More

Tool available here:  http://waterfootprint.org/en/resources/interactive-tools/water-footprint-assessment-tool/The Global Water Footprint Assessment Standard is the... Read More

General result

WaterWorld

Spatial Mapping / GIS Data | Free

Provides information on and access to spatial modelling and mapping tools for mapping ecosystem services, water resources and the impacts of climate and land use change... Read More

Because water is essential for nearly every human endeavor, all businesses are in the water business. With climate change, economic growth and population growth putting... Read More

This guide is intended to assist policy makers and competent authorities in understanding and fulfilling the action planning requirements of Directive 2002/49/EC. This good... Read More

Do you have a resource that's relevant to this search? Submit it here!