The aims of this study are to identify and evaluate the impact and consequences of implementation of the CLP Regulation (EC No 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures) and to evaluate the way in which it interacts and coexists with other pieces of chemicals legislation.

Under a sub-contract with Coffey International, RPA have been requested to assist with a cost-benefit analysis of the Harmonised Social Cash Transfer component of the Child Protection Fund, a multi-donor financed programme in Zimbabwe which was set up to deliver on Government of Zimbabwe policy and action planning (specifically, the National Action Plan for Orphans and Vulnerable Children II) on social service provision (particularly child protection) and social transfers to the poorest and most vulnerable.

The aim of this project is to undertake a cost/benefit analysis (CBA) to inform the development of new arrangements to monitor and evaluate the impact of pesticides on human health, in line with the recommendation from a report of the Pesticides Adverse Health Effects Surveillance (PAHES) working group of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides (ACP), hereinafter ACP (2013).

This study covered the review, further development and trial of the assessment methodology used to identify the benefits of mine water treatment schemes.

This feasibility study, which was undertaken as part of the EU INTERREG IVA funded Value of Working Wetlands (WOW) project, aimed to map out, and take the first practical steps towards, the creation of innovative revenue frameworks which allow land managers to achieve economic sustainability while maintaining wet habitats. The study investigated areas likely to attract the highest level of agri-environment subsidy available, as well as those where funding might decrease in the future. Habitat diversity and land ownership, as well as the likely availability of funding sources also needed to be considered.

The objective of this project is to guide Defra and their Ministers in decisions on updating river basin management plans, in particular assessing whether measures to improve the quality of the water environment are affordable. Affordability is to be considered for each sector or group which may have to bear the costs, and at the national level and potentially the river basin district level. The sectoral definitions to be followed are those that were adopted by the Environment Agency (EA).