Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200102877 [ 2020-12-01 - 2024-11-29 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: David J Pannell (Chief Investigator) ,  Dr Michael Burton (Chief Investigator) ,  Md Sayed Iftekhar (Chief Investigator) ,  Rogers, Abbie (Chief Investigator) ,  Rogers, Abbie (Chief Investigator)
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Brief description Benefits and costs of non-market valuation for environmental management. Benefits from environmental policies are often unpriced “non-market values” (NMVs). Environmental agencies struggle to know how best to measure these relatively intangible benefits, but doing so is important to ensure value for money from public investments. Environmental economists have developed and applied a wide range of methods for estimating NMVs. The methods vary in their comprehensiveness, accuracy and cost. Yet no rigorous tool is available to assess (a) which NMV method is best to implement, accounting for its cost and its potential to improve decisions, or (b) whether any NMV method improves decisions enough to warrant its cost. In creating such a tool, this project will deliver a key breakthrough in environmental economics.

Funding Amount $537,117

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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