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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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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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Economics, Policy

362. BCA criticisms 3: “discounting is bad”

10 January, 202221 September, 2023 by David Pannell6 Min Reading

Number 3 in my series on criticisms of Benefit: Cost Analysis (BCA) addresses discounting, the procedure used to compare benefits and costs that occur at

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