Description

The impact assessment of the implementation of NBS in terms of new business creation and improvement on business rates.

This KPI, related to economic aspects measurements, evaluates how NBS interventions can increase the attraction of businesses, or how to increase the value of the existing ones. This value, evaluated through the measurements of number of new business created and the percentage of the gross value added, will reflect the economic opportunities and potential of NBS solutions. 

Scale as linked to D2.2 framework

• City
• Neighborhood

Data source [ link to data framework]

• Questionnaires
• City records

Data needs

• City official data, city platforms, questionnaires, small/medium enterprise account (Related to de NBS investment zone)
• (nº business) (€/m2)
• (nº business or nº users) (kg/year) (€/year)

Expected Outputs

Calculation methods

Links and references

• URBAN GreenUP Deliverable D2.4 - Monitoring program to Valladolid. https://www.urbangreenup.eu/insights/deliverables/d2-4--- monitoring-program-to-valladolid.kl
• URBAN GreenUP Deliverable D3.4 - Monitoring program to Liverpool https://www.urbangreenup.eu/insights/deliverables/d3-4--- monitoring-program-to-liverpool.kl
• URBAN GreenUP Deliverable D4.4 – Monitoring program to Izmir https://www.urbangreenup.eu/insights/deliverables/d4-4-- monitoring-program-to-izmir.kl
• URBAN GreenUP Deliverable D5.3: City Diagnosis and Monitoring Procedures https://www.urbangreenup.eu/insights/deliverables/d5-3- city-diagnosis-and-monitoring-procedures.kl
• An impact evaluation framework to support planning and evaluation of nature-based solutions rojects; An EKLIPSE Expert Working Group report, 2017
• "The Model of the Environmental Sustainability Matrix" (“El Modelo de la matriz de Sostenibilidad Ambiental”); La ordenación Urbana y el Desarrollo Sostenible, Angel Ibañez Ceba, Fermín Cerezo Rubio, August 2009
• Expert evaluation network delivering policy analysis on the performance of Cohesion policy 2007-2013, 2013, “Job creation as an indicator of outcomes in ERDF programmes”, Synthesis report, August 2013, A report to the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy
• Forestry Commission, Scotland, The economic an d social contribution of forestry for people in Scotland, David Edwards, Jake Morris, Liz O´Brien, Vadims Sarajevs and Gregory Valatin, September 2008
• Guidance Document on Monitoring and Evaluation – ERDF and Cohesion Fund, Concepts and Recommendations, Programming Period 2014-2020, European Commission, April 2013. Annex1