Estimating the value of ecosystem services helps to justify policy’ support for, and private investments in, ecosystem restoration.
In this topic, you will learn:
- general principles of economic evaluation (e.g. cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, benchmarking of alternative solutions, identification of potential beneficiaries, etc);
- methods of economic evaluation (e.g., travel costs, willingness to pay, market prices, etc.);
- examples of ecosystem services economic evaluation for both public and private sectors.
The ECOSTAR e-learning course
The course will run from December 2018 to February 2019, on Moodle’s e-learning platform. Find out more and apply for “Ecosystem services entrepreneurship: from ideas to business” course here or write to us for further information.