Guest lecturer on valuation methods

Lecture 4 will be held by Prof Jon Strand, he has been working in the IMF, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, and he will share his interesting experiences with environmental valuation methods, among them a method to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Here are two web references that he will be discussing in class:

• http://csr.ufmg.br/amazones
• http://www.biosfera.dea.ufv.br/en-US/deforestation-and-rainfall.

And the readings are:

• Strand, J., Carson, R. T., Navrud, S., Ortiz-Bobea, A., and Vincent, J. R. (2017). Using the Delphi method to value protection of the Amazon rainforest. Ecological Economics, 131:475-484.

• Carlsen, A. J., Strand, J., and Wenst_p, F. (1993). Implicit

  Environmental Costs in Hydroelectric Development: An Analysis of the Norwegian Master Plan for Water Resources.