Environmental management � Guidelines for determining environmental costs and benefits

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Management Guidelines

Bayesian belief networks: applications in ecology and natural resource management

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 3053-3062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K McCann ◽  
Bruce G Marcot ◽  
Rick Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Bayesian Belief Networks ◽  
Belief Networks ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
Management Framework

In this introduction to the following series of papers on Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) we briefly summarize BBNs, review their application in ecology and natural resource management, and provide an overview of the papers in this section. We suggest that BBNs are useful tools for representing expert knowledge of an ecosystem, evaluating potential effects of alternative management decisions, and communicating with nonexperts about making natural resource management decisions. BBNs can be used effectively to represent uncertainty in understanding and variability in ecosystem response, and the influence of uncertainty and variability on costs and benefits assigned to model outcomes or decisions associated with natural resource management. BBN tools also lend themselves well to an adaptive-management framework by posing testable management hypotheses and incorporating new knowledge to evaluate existing management guidelines.

Aspetti evolutivi dell'Environmental Management Accounting: l'Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing

2012 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Michele A. Rea ◽  
Lucia Stella
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
New Research ◽  
Traditional Activity

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is a new research field on accounting born to overcome conventional management accounting's limits about environmental costs. This work offers a literary review on EMA. In particular, the Authors in the first part describe a series of LCC-oriented tools which characterise Environmental Management Accounting. The second section, passing through the "traditional" Activity-Based Costing, presents the Activity-Based LCC methodology, which combines the activity-based approach with the life-cycle perspective for environmental costs. In conclusion, the Authors propose new research lines on EMA.

Environmental costs and their impact on the net present value of a hydro-electric project in Kerala, India

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Santhakumar ◽  
Achin Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Net Present Value ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Net Benefit ◽  
Pulp Industry ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cost

This paper presents the operational procedures involved in incorporating the environmental costs in the cost–benefit analysis of a hydro-electric project. The proposed project, if implemented, would result in the loss of 2,800 hectares of tropical forests and dislocation of two settlements of about 200 families who are currently dependent on the forests for their livelihood. The forests are mainly used for extracting reed – a material used both by traditional artisans and the paper-pulp industry. The potential environmental costs and benefits of the project are identified and approximate estimates of some of these costs are made for items such as carbon sequestration, bio-diversity, and so on, based on similar estimates made elsewhere. These estimated environmental costs are incorporated into the analysis, and the hypothetical estimate of the non-use value, which would make the project's net benefit zero, is estimated under different discount rates. The analysis brings into sharp focus some crucial factors that have a direct bearing on the social trade-off involved in the project choice.

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