Evaluating economic costs and benefits of climate resilient livelihood strategies

Evaluating Costs and Benefits of Distributed Learning

Distributed learning may decrease cost per learner in relation to small campus-based courses. This paper presents design and evaluation strategies for distributed learning, together with evaluation results for existing programs. It further describes means to evaluate costs and benefits for both the provider and the customer. Distributed Learning Distributed Learning includes strategies where le...

Some Economic Benefits and Costs of Vegetarianism

It is now fashionable in many circles to advocate vegetarianism, and many activist groups are vocal in their aim to convert the human race to vegetarians. What would be the economic costs and benefits of a shift away from meat consumption? In this article we provide some partial answers to this question. In three separate analyses we show (i) that it is much more costly to produce energy and pr...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Measuring the economic benefits and costs of Bluetongue virus outbreak and control strategies in Scotland

This paper provides an ex-ante economic analysis, comparing six alternative control strategies for the eradication of Bluetongue virus 8 against five incursion scenarios in cattle and sheep populations. The economic analysis assumes a common baseline unavoidable cost of public and private measures that together contribute to prevention of incursion of BTV8 into Scotland. These costs continue ov...

Benefits, costs, and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program.

Despite broad interest in using payment for ecosystem services to promote changes in the use of natural capital, there are few expost assessments of impacts of payment for ecosystem services programs on ecosystem service provision, program cost, and changes in livelihoods resulting from program participation. In this paper, we evaluate the Paddy Land-to-Dry Land (PLDL) program in Beijing, China...