A Student's Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis

for Natural Resources

Lessons:

1. Introduction
2. Market Failure and Public Investment
3. Cost-Benefit Analysis in Theory and Application
4. The Mechanics of Discounting
5. Project Selection Criteria
6. The Social Discount Rate
7. Theory Behind Cost and Benefit Valuation
8. Valuing Market and Non-Market Natural Resources
9. Natural Resource Values from Secondary Sources
10. Conducting Sensitivity Analysis
11. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
12. Links to CBA Literature

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