Natural Resource and Environmental Economics Web Links

Chapter 11: Cost Benefit Analysis

National/Regional EPA's and other official governmental organisations

• UK Treasury Greenbook  A fantastic resource. The latest 2003 edition of the UK Project Appraisal handbook, giving an in-depth analysis of most of the issues related to the practical implementation of cost-benefit analysis, including the ways of handling distributional weights.
• U.K. The Environment Agency
• U.S. Environmental Potection Agency
• US EPA: Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses Link to a large (> 200 pdf document, described by the US EPA as: 'Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses establish a sound scientific framework for performing economic analyses of environmental regulations and policies. They incorporate recent advances in theoretical and applied work in the field of environmental economics. The Guidelines provide guidance on analyzing the economic impacts of regulations and policies, and assessing the distribution of costs and benefits among various segments of the population, with a particular focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.'
  
• EPA Environmental Economics
• EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics
• Environment Agency Home Page
• The European Environment Agency
• Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
• U.K. Natural Environment Research Council

United Nations and other international organisations

• World Bank
• World Bank Publications
• World Bank World Development Report 2002 Full Text Sections
• United Nations—Economic and Social Development—

Other organisations

• The Environmental and Cost-Benefit Analysis web site A major site bringing together a very large number of source materials and news about CBA and valuation
• US Army Corps of Engineers: Envir valuation manual 1
• US Army Corps Val manual 2
• US Corps of Army Engineers: Institute for Water Resources Contains a lot of material on valuation and project appraisal, especially in the context of water resources
• Nat'l Academy Press, New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1999), 1 Evolution of Cor
• Reports and Studies US Army Corps
• Risks and CBA
• The World Commission on Dams
• Socioeconomic Epidemiology

Academic sites

• UEA GIS application to environmental economics (monetary value of environmental features)
• Bibliography of conservation of biological diversity

Valuation and Sustainability

• Example 1