RAMEA
RAMEA
RAMEA is a Regional NAMEA (National Accounting Matrix with Environmental Accounts), an environmental accounting system which combines economic accounts (measured in monetary terms) and environmental accounts (measured in physical units) into a single framework useful for the evaluation of the integrated economic-environmental-social performance of regions. RAMEA can be used as a decision support system, to inform and help regional policy-makers to identify and to quantify potential environmental and economic impacts associated with regional development policy measures.
RAMEA´s framework is based on a well established approach (SEEA 2003 and Eurostat Guidelines) and robust data from official statistics: it is coherent with similar tools at national level (NAMEA) and compiled in a relatively inexpensive way, deriving its numbers from national and regional accounts. RAMEA allows analysing the pressures placed on the environment by the economic sectors and households, with the possibility of extracting sustainability indicators: we can highlight the regional "hot spots" for emissions (global warming, acidification, eutrophication, wastes, local air quality), establish a direct link with their economic performances (output, value added, employment) and develop eco-efficiency indexes (e.g. emission intensity). Furthermore, we can examine the relationship between economic development and environmental pressures (to see if pressures are decoupling from economic growth), benchmark the cross-country differences in terms of eco-efficiency and understand the reasons behind these differences (using shift-share analysis). Data provided by RAMEA, in combination with environmental Input-Output analysis, allows a deeper insight into regional production chains and indirect effects caused by the final demand of goods which production is intensive in terms of pollution.
RAMEA simplified scheme (data in %)
Printable version edited by: Arpa Emilia-Romagna - last update: 3/19/2010
