Agenda: Environmental Economics for Development Policy (EEDP 10)

Part I: Setting Priorities for Policy Interventions

• Economic Principles and the Environment
• Principles of Sustainable Development
• Measuring Sustainable Development
• Poverty and Environment
• The Role of Business and Government in Achieving Sustainability
• Financing for Sustainability
• Macroeconomics and the Environment
• Trade and the Environment
• Natural Resource Management
• Exhaustible Resources
• Pollution Control, Choice of Instruments: Theory and Applications
• Payment for Ecosystem Services / Market Creation for Enviromental Externalities
• Managing the Global Commons: The Mitigation and Adaption Climate Change

Part II: Analyzing Environmental Benefits and Costs

• Overview of Use of Benefit-Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
• Overview of Valuation Techniques
• Valuing Health Benefits - Using Valuation to Set Priorities
• Change in Productivity Approach
• Contingent Valuation
• Travel Cost Method
• Measuring Environmental Health Effects
• Hedonic Price Method
• Household Production Function
• Setting Priorities for Improved Environmental Management