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369. BCA criticisms 5: “money isn’t everything”

13 April, 202221 September, 2023 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

I’ve heard people express opposition to the use of Benefit: Cost Analysis because they say that it is too focused on money and neglects important

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Climate change, Economics, Latest, Policy, Politics

368. Serious weaknesses in the Emissions Reduction Fund

7 April, 202231 May, 2022 by David Pannell5 Min Reading

An unfortunate thing about environmental policies is how easy it seems to be to do them badly. It’s all too common to find that an

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Economics

367. BCA challenges: over-optimism

24 February, 202221 September, 2023 by David Pannell2 Min Reading

On 7 February 2022, I presented an online workshop called “Benefit-Cost Analysis: Traps, Challenges and Best Practice” as part of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource

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Economics, Environment, Policy

366. Environmental accounting: is it worthwhile?

17 February, 202210 March, 2022 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

There was a session at the AARES online conference last week on environmental accounting, which is getting a lot of attention and resources currently. I

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Latest

365. Investment decision-support framework for water-sensitive urban design

9 February, 20229 February, 2022 by David Pannell2 Min Reading

I’ve got a new paper out in the Journal of Hydrology: “Developing an integrated investment decision-support framework for water-sensitive urban design projects” by Md Sayed

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Economics, Latest, Policy, Social issues

364. BCA criticisms 4: “not fair”

24 January, 202221 September, 2023 by David Pannell7 Min Reading

Sometimes Benefit: Cost Analysis is criticised because it doesn’t address questions of fairness (or “equity”). To what extent is that a fair(!) criticism? In the

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    When designing an environmental offset scheme, it is important to account for the probability that an offset project will fail to deliver its intended benefits.

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