Our experts use a portfolio of cutting-edge economic tools and rigorous research methods, including the following:
- Benefit Cost Analysis—We evaluate the costs and benefits of programs and policies by incorporating values of natural capital; this work allows us to provide insight into comprehensive net benefits and the cost-effectiveness of various interventions.
- Scenario Assessments—We design and assess future scenarios to explore potential macroeconomic and environmental impacts of alternative policy formulations, and we inform decision-makers about possible tradeoffs among competing objectives.
- Ecosystem Service Valuation—We conduct detailed assessments (in the form of regulating and provisioning services) about the value that ecosystems provide, and we support integrating these values into analyses of intervention impacts.
- Impact Evaluation—We use empirical tools and historical observations to generate estimates about environmental program and policy impacts, and we use economic modeling tools to determine the expected future impacts of planned or proposed policies.
- Geospatial Analysis—We leverage geospatial data and tools to track (1) how impacts, costs, and benefits of environmental programming vary across space and (2) how this programming may disproportionately impact certain communities or damage high-value ecosystems.
