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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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Music

363. The Beatles: Get Back

17 January, 202230 January, 2022 by David Pannell16 Min Reading

Peter Jackson’s documentary masterpiece, The Beatles: Get Back, was released in November. I know that thousands of people have already commented on it, either in

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  • 440. Environmental offsets 8. Indirect offsets

    Some offset schemes allow research or public education as “indirect” offsets, as opposed to a direct offset, which undertakes on-ground works that create environmental benefits

  • 439. Environmental offsets 7. Offset duration

    For offsets to do their job, they need to be in place and delivering their benefits for at least as long as the development has

  • 438. Environmental offsets 6. Habitat quality

    In some environmental offset schemes, the “currency” used to measure impacts and benefits is vegetation or habitat. In these cases, it is important to account

  • 437. Environmental offsets 5. Setting the baseline

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  • 435. Environmental offsets 3. Risk of failure

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  • 433. Depicting risk in graphs for farmers

  • 432. Environmental offsets 1. Introduction

  • 431. Webinar on economics of urban park designs

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