Economic Tools for Integrating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Transport Sector Investments

A three day course for transport sector specialists. For more information about CSF's work with IDB, please read our blog post about the training series.  

Day 1

• Economic foundations and models
• Markets, competition and externalities
• Ecosystem services and public goods

Day 2

• Environmental valuation: overview of methods, examples
• Direct and indirect impacts of road transport infrastructure
• Environmental impact evaluation
• Sustainable transport infrastructure

Day 3

• Environmental valuation exercise
• Cost benefit analysis: overview, perspectives, scenarios and alternatives, financial analysis
• Cost benefit analysis: economic analysis, case study of inegrated analysis of road investments
• Cost benefit analysis exercise and discussion of IDB projects