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Demystifying Economic Valuation

June 2016
Source: 
Valuing Nature

This paper Demystifying Economic Valuation covers the main issues, questions and principles surrounding economic valuation and is designed as an overview for those new to economic valuation. The paper brings together input from 120 volunteers from the economic valuation community.  The editors are Ece Ozdemiroglu and Rosie Hails from the Valuing Nature Programme Coordination Team. 

The paper covers the following topics:

  • Why economic valuation?
  • What is economic valuation?
  • How do we estimate economic value?
  • Whose values count?
  • How do we use economic values in decision making?
  • But economic values vary! And so they should!
  • How to communicate economic value evidence.
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Themes: 
Indicators and Measurement, Natural Capital
Key search terms: 
paper production, health sector, externality, feed-in tariffs

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