3 1 false EMDV8002 <p>This course is designed to provide students with specialist skills used to gather, integrate and interpret information useful to the Environmental Decision Making process. It builds upon the knowledge of environmental and resource management tools covered in EMDV 8102 Tools and Processes for Environmental and Resource Management. </p><p>The skills provided include: cost-benefit analysis, contingent valuation, choice modeling, travel cost analysis, hedonic methods, bio-economic modelling, social surveying, risk and uncertainty integration.&nbsp;</p> 1 false 11211 <p>Major project (30%), mid-term exam&nbsp;(25%), final exam (35%), problem sets (10%)</p> 1 1 0 Methods for Environmental Decision-Making 6 6 <p><strong>Prescribed Text:</strong></p><p>Garrod, G. and Willis, K.G., 1999. Economic Valuation of the Environment: Methods and case studies. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.</p><p><strong>Recommended reading includes:</strong></p><p>Loomis, J. and Helfard, G., 2001. Environmental Policy Analysis for Decision Making. Kluwer, Dordrecht.</p><p>Hanley, N. and Spash, C.L., 1993. Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.</p> 6 Env. Decision-Making Band 2 Environmental Management & Development 2010