Evaluation of good practices impacts at the small to medium scale: the Friuli Venezia Giulia experience

From the text: For the evaluation of environmental impacts due to human activities, lifestyles or plans and programs it is essential the identification of measurable indicators that allow to link the activities we're talking about with the effects we're studying. The best choice of the index depends on the type of the impact we want to analyze. The starting point for the evaluation of the efficacy of carried out actions consists in the quantitative assessment of selected indicators and of the identification of relations. These ones link indicators on the one hand with the processes and on the other hand with environmental effects, whatever it is the target (reduction of air pollution, reduction of energy wastes, reduction of ecological footprint etc.).

Contribution to the 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Venice in 2012.