FE735en Measuring regional eco-efficiency - case Kymenlaakso
Key results of the ECOREG project
Matti Melanen, Jyri Seppälä, Tuuli Myllymaa, Per Mickwitz,
Ulla Rosenström, Sirkka Koskela, Jyrki Tenhunen, Ilmo Mäenpää,
Frank Hering, Alec Estlander, Marja-Riitta Hiltunen, Mika Toikka, Esa Mänty, Lasse Liljeqvist and Juha Pesari, 2004
The Finnish Environment FE735en, environmental protection, 110 p.
URN:ISBN:9521119012, ISBN 952-11-1901-2 (PDF). The publication is
available also in printed form ISBN 952-11-1900-4.
Abstract
In the last few years the focus has been, in many ways, placed on the European “regions”, and hence the promotion of their competitiveness – and, by this means, their eco-efficiency – has become a central issue in the regions
concerned.
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), the Southeast Finland Regional Environment Centre, the Regional Council of Kymenlaakso and the Thule Institute at the University of Oulu conducted (1 September 2002 – 31 December 2004) a LIFE project
named “The Eco-efficiency of Regions – Case Kymenlaakso (ECOREG)”. The project was financed by the European Community’s LIFE programme (support obtained from LIFE-Environment) and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment. The goal
of this project was to demonstrate the concept of eco-efficiency and eco-efficiency evaluation on a regional scale, taking the Kymenlaakso region located in Southeast Finland as an example.
This current report presents the key results of the ECOREG project particularly focusing on the indicators and measuring of regional eco-efficiency (monitoring and evaluation mechanism), the processes and methods utilised in the project as well as
reproducibility and transferability of the ECOREG results in other parts of Finland and Europe. The ECOREG project has a website:
More information:
Matti Melanen, Finnish Environment Institute,
firstname.surname@ymparisto.fi
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