Economic Valuation Tools for Protected Areas Course Schedule
Day 1: Supply and Demand for Protected Area Values
- 9:00am – 9:10am: Introduction to Workshop
- 9:10am – 10:30am Economics Basics Consumer and Producer surplus
- 10:30am – 11:00am —Coffee Break—
- 11:00am – 12:30pm Impact of financing mechanisms, management
- 12:30pm – 1:30pm —Lunch—
- 1:30pm – 3:00pm Economic and environmental values, Valuation techniques and challenges Fund
- 3:00pm – 3:30pm —Coffee Break—
- 3:30pm – 5:00pm Valuation exercise in groups, Discussion
- Day 2: Economic Valuation Surveys
- 9:00am – 10:30am Introduction to economic surveys
- 10:30am – 11:00am —Coffee Break—
- 11:00am – 12:30pm Survey Design
- 12:30pm – 1:30pm —Lunch—
- 1:30pm – 4:00pm Conduct surveys in field
- 4:00pm – 5:00pm Discuss survey exercise
- Day 3: Protected Areas Financing and Policies
- 9:00am – 10:30am Mechanisms for protected area revenue generation
- 10:30am – 11:00am —Coffee Break—
- 11:00am – 12:30pm Park financing challenges and examples
- 12:30pm – 1:30pm —Lunch—
- 1:30pm – 3:00pm Using economic data for policy and management
- 3:00pm – 3:30pm —Coffee Break—
- 3:30pm – 5:00pm Discussion: Economic research in the region
