Design treasury instruments
Examples of Design treasury instruments:
Green Accounting (GA): http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/Fo42-312-2000E.pdf
Design informational instruments
Examples of Design informational instruments:
Eco-Design (EDM)
Sustainable Process Design (SPD)
Output Assessment organizational instruments
Examples of Output Assessment organizational instruments:
Life Cycle Activity Analysis (LCAA): http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%20%22life%20cycle%20activity%20analysis%22%20%20case%20studies%20project&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEkQFjAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwoc.uc.pt%2Fdem%2FgetFile.do%3Ftipo%3D2%26id%3D1380&ei=9G7xUZvqE4KpiALYjoAo&usg=AFQjCNFCM7Etbtq3eDXZCfpvzdg5udtvjA&sig2=oqdJOqNZH47idr
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): SEA is process-oriented but could be authority tool in the case of the SEA Directive of the EU (p.175-6) http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ENVIRONMENT/Resources/244380-1236266590146/Strategic_Environmental_A
Life Cycle Optimization (LCO): http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS10-02.pdf
Output Assessment treasury instruments
Examples of Output Assessment treasury instruments:
Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGEM):http://peseta.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.htm
Partial Equilibrium Modelling (PEM): ftp://ftp.ecn.nl/pub/www/library/report/2000/c00001.pdf
Output Assessment informational instruments
Examples of Output Assessment informational instruments:
Energy/Exergy Analysis (EA): http://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/exergy-analysis-of-the-energy-use-in-greece(3c6627be-9e7c-408d-8eac-819cef748a4a).html
Attribute Ranking organizational instruments
Examples of Attribute Ranking organizational instruments:
Process steps
Attribute Ranking treasury instruments
Examples of Attribute Ranking treasury instruments:
Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA): http://www.cafe-cba.org/
Life Cycle Costing (LCC): http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/construction/files/compet/life_cycle_costing/guidance__case_study_en.pdf
Total Cost Assessment (TCA): http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/03/02976.pdf
External Costs (ExternE): http://www.ier.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/projektwebsites/newext/newext_final.pdf
E3ME (energy-environment-economy model of Europe): http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enveco/studies_modelling/pdf/report_macroeconomic.pdf
Cost-effective calculation: http://www.msbg.umn.edu/downloads_v2_1/4Energy_App-E-8_V2-1.pdf
Attribute Ranking informational instruments
Examples of Attribute Ranking informational instruments:
Material Flow Analysis (MFA): http://www.ingurumena.ejgv.euskadi.net/r49-6172/en/contenidos/libro/ntm/en_pub/adjuntos/ntm.pdf
Substance Flow Analysis (SFA): http://www.cohiba-project.net/sources/results/en_GB/reports/
Environmental Input-Output Analysis (EIOA)/Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis (EEIOA): http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/eur22194en.pdf
Input-Output Analysis, including Social Accounting Matrices (IOA, including SAM)
Material Intensity per Service Unit (MIPS): http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/59294/1/485276682.pdf
Carbon Footprint: http://www.ireea.cn/paddy/pd_admin/web_edit/uploadfile/20100409231701762.pdf
Scenario Development
Checklist
Forms
Questionnaires
Impact Tables: http://adam-digital-compendium.pik-potsdam.de/macro-economic-analysis/direct-impacts-1/impacts-by-region/central-europe-east-1/
Design tools
As it is states in the European Commission report for the THERMIE Programme, Tools and Techniques for the Design and Evaluation of Energy Efficient Buildings, design tools:
“…includes a diversity of tools, from those used to inform the design process by indicating trends in energy use associated with strategic design decisions, to tools to predict the energetic performance of detailed architectural and engineering proposals. In some cases, design tools have been developed to replace laborious calculation procedures used in the design process. […]…They can save considerable time if used correctly, cutting a week’s work on paper to possibly an hour or less in the case of a computer based design tool. Other tools have been developed to determine the behaviour of physical phenomena which would previously have been too complex to examine by hand. In some cases this extends to assessing interactions between design elements which were previously treated in isolation.[…]…Design tools are not always calculation methods. Many other forms of tools have been developed to assist the building designer in arriving at more energy-efficient solutions. Handbooks, tabulated data, etc. have been compiled to assist in energy efficient design. The computerisation of information sources allows designers to locate required information quickly…” (The European Commission Directorate-General for Energy (DGXVII), 1995, p.2 http://erg.ucd.ie/UCDERG/pdfs/mb_design_tools.pdf )
Output Assessment Tools
From an evaluation (policy) design perspective, the OECD defines output as “The products, capital goods and services which result from a development intervention; may also include changes resulting from the intervention which are relevant to the achievement of outcomes” (OECD 2010, p.28). In other words, “Outputs are the specific activities that directly result from inputs, such as the implementation of a plan or direct activities” (Reese and Fasenfest 2003, p. 267).
While output oriented evaluation techniques are based on actual data gathered about a policy at a post-implementation stage, Output Assessment Tools (OATs) at the formulation stage are more speculative and prospective as they provide a way to quantify or measure the impact of the public policy attribute previously identified. Likewise Attribute Ranking Tools, OATs also facilitate policy choices and structure decision-making at the formulation stage.
OECD (2010) Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. http://www.oecd.org/development/peer-reviews/2754804.pdf
Laura A. Reese and David Fasenfest. (2003). Planning for Development: An Assessment of the Economic Development District Planning Process. Economic Development 17: 264-279 pp.