Valuation Methods for Environmental Benefits in Forestry and Watershed Investment Projects

Social & Environmental Benefits of Forestry

Intangible benefits valuation in ERP projects

The development, implementation and ownership of information systems, especially large-scale systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), has become progressively longer in duration and more cost intensive. As a result, IS managers are being required to justify projects financially based on their return. Historically, information systems have been difficult to quantify in monetary terms ...

Policy and Strategy Forestry and Watershed Subsector

Economic Principles and Overview of Valuation Methods for Environmental Impacts1

Valuing the services derived from the environment is important because it ‘works’ – i.e. it helps make the case for protecting the environment in an effective way. Indeed it can be, in many cases, a more effective instrument than other methods of protecting the environment – such as lobbying, undertaking direct action and so on. But to be successful it has to be carried out in a credible and pr...

Identifying the Factors Affecting Manufacturing Investment Projects and Using TOPSIS Method for Prioritizing Projects

For many cases, grading and prioritizing the projects are so important in project-based organizations. In fact, it means prioritizing some projects and allocating organizational resource only to those projects to reach the organization profit up to maximum level through such allocation and decision. There are many different factors contribute in choosing the best project combination for organiz...