Table 3 The impact categories in the EPS method
Safeguard subject | Impact Category | Indicator name | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
Human health | Life Expectancy | YOLL: years of lost life | Person year |
Severe Morbidity & suffering | Severe Morbidity | Person year | |
Severe Nuisance | Severe Nuisance | Person year | |
Working capacity | Working capacity | Person year | |
Migration | Migration | Persons | |
Ecosystem production capacity | Crop production capacity | Crop | \(\text {kg}\) |
Wood production capacity | Wood | \(\text {kg}\) | |
Fish & meat production capacity | Fish & meat | \(\text {kg}\) | |
Soil acidification | Base cat-ion capacity | Mole H+ equivalents | |
Production capacity of water | Irrigation water | ||
Drinking water | \(\text {kg}\) | ||
\(\text {kg}\) | |||
Abiotic stock resource | Depletion of element reserves | Natural gas reserves | \(\text {kg}\) |
Oil reserves | \(\text {kg}\) | ||
Coal reserves | \(\text {kg}\) | ||
“Mineral name” reserves | \(\text {kg}\) of minirals | ||
Biodiversity | Threat contribution: Extinction of a species (animals, plants, organisms and their genes included) | ”Normalized extinction of species” and is measured as the share of all red-listed species. | Dimensionless |