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Abstract
Evaluations of environmental impacts of RDPs are characterized by a number of
methodological challenges. However, recent methodological developments have improved the
understanding and capacity of analysing the impacts of farming and forestry on the provision
of public goods. Against this background, the main aim of ENVIEVAL is to develop and test
improved tools for the evaluation of environmental impacts of rural development measures
and programmes in EU Member States. The main innovative aspects of the new
methodological frameworks are that they enable the integration of micro- and macro-level
evaluations (and their results) and provide guidance on the selection and application of costeffective
evaluation methods to estimate net effects of rural development programmes on the
different main public goods from farming and forestry.