2 week course

Economic Tools for Conservation - 2-week Course

The course covers the following subjects:

Microeconomics
Market theory: supply, demand, market equilibrium, and competition.

Natural Resource Economics
Capital theory
Renewable and non-renewable resource extraction, markets, and policy trends.

Environmental Economics
Why markets are inefficient when it comes to environmental protection.
How economists place monetary values on the environment, and how these methods are best used in developing countries. Identifying opportunities and barriers for payments for environmental services.

Negotiation and Simulation Exercises
Exercises and instruction focused on policy negotiation skills.

Cost-benefit Analysis
Case studies evaluating the economic feasibility of small-scale and large-scale projects, including incorporation of externalities and sensitivity analysis.

Communication
Effective strategies for presenting economic analysis results.

Instructors
Economic Tools for Ecosystem Conservation is taught by experts in environmental economics who also have extensive field experience and understand real-world conservation challenges. They are drawn from several leading academic and international institutions including Stanford University, Duke University, Wellesley College, and the World Bank. Additional instruction is delivered by CSF staff.

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