ENT has extensive experience in developing projects to assess the socioeconomic impact of environmental policies and actions at local, regional, national, and European levels. These projects address areas such as biodiversity, nature conservation, forest management, waste management, and climate change, among others, providing in‑depth insight into the effects of these actions across different territorial scales and thereby supporting informed decision‑making.
Our methodological approach is diverse and includes the identification of indicators to measure project outcomes, as well as the application of socioeconomic analysis methods such as cost–benefit analysis (CBA), multicriteria analysis (MCA), and input–output (I‑O) analysis, the development of econometric models, among others. In addition, we focus on assessing the effects on ecosystem services—such as provisioning, regulation, maintenance, and cultural services—in order to understand how environmental actions influence natural ecosystems.
Some concrete examples of our work include the analysis of environmental conservation plans and programmes, assessing their impact in terms of gross value added generation, job creation, education, and other social factors; the evaluation of waste‑management policies through the assessment of public expenditure and the efficiency of public policy instruments; or the analysis of fiscal incentives aimed at promoting nature conservation.
