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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the protection of Malleefowl in the Lachlan Catchment
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| Autores: |
Greyling, Tertius
Bennett, Jeffrey W.
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| Data: |
2011-06-23
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| Ano: |
2011
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| Palavras-chave: |
Cost-benefit analysis
Benefit-cost ratio
Choice modelling
Malleefowl
Lachlan Catchment
Environmental Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of an investment in the protection of malleefowl and associated native vegetation in the Lachlan Catchment’s central-west yielded a benefit-cost ratio of 1.4. The CBA is based on project expenditures over the past four years coupled with benefit estimates from a recent Choice Modelling study in the Lachlan Catchment. The project targets the protection of malleefowl on private land which has not yet been surveyed but where the species is known to be present. The CBA is subject to significant uncertainty due to a lack of available data. Nonetheless, sensitivity analysis indicates that the BCR is consistently larger than unity, if marginal in some cases. This suggests that the project is a worthwhile investment at this early stage. Furthermore, greater gains may be achieved by addressing the numerous threats facing the species and its habitat. The increased cost of such an investment may be more than offset by the gains in benefits due to relatively conservative assumptions associated with the benefit calculations in the BCA.
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| Tipo: |
Report
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
ISSN 1835-9728
http://purl.umn.edu/107849
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| Relação: |
Australian National University>Environmental Economics Research Hub>Research Reports
Environmental Economics Research Hub
EERH 99
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| Formato: |
21
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