OECD Environment Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies on environmental issues prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal authors are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language English or French with a summary in the other if available.
- ISSN: 19970900 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/19970900
Evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity
Impact evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis and other approaches
This report provides an overview of methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity, covering impact evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis and other more commonly used approaches. It then provides an inventory of biodiversity-relevant impact evaluation studies, across both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The report concludes with lessons learned, policy insights and suggestions for further work.
Keywords: Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services, Cost–Benefit Analysis, Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation, Biodiversity Conservation, Allocative Efficiency
JEL:
D61: Microeconomics / Welfare Economics / Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis;
D04: Microeconomics / General / Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation;
Q20: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Renewable Resources and Conservation / Renewable Resources and Conservation: General;
Q57: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
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