440. Environmental offsets 8. Indirect offsets
Some offset schemes allow research or public education as indirect offsets, as opposed to a direct offset, which undertakes on-ground works that create environmental benefits
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439. Environmental offsets 7. Offset duration
For offsets to do their job, they need to be in place and delivering their benefits for at least as long as the development has
438. Environmental offsets 6. Habitat quality
In some environmental offset schemes, the currency used to measure impacts and benefits is vegetation or habitat. In these cases, it is important to account
437. Environmental offsets 5. Setting the baseline
Biodiversity offset schemes usually aim to deliver no net loss of biodiversity, but no net loss relative to what? What is the baseline? This question
436. Environmental offsets 4. Time lags
In environmental offset schemes, there is often a time lag between when the environmental damage is done and when the offset project delivers its full
435. Environmental offsets 3. Risk of failure
When designing an environmental offset scheme, it is important to account for the probability that an offset project will fail to deliver its intended benefits.
434. Environmental offsets 2. The currency for measuring impacts and benefits
In an environmental offset scheme, the environmental impacts of a development project and the benefits of an offset project need to be compared quantitatively. To
433. Depicting risk in graphs for farmers
There are many types of graphs that can depict the riskiness of a decision option. Here I present and comment on some of them. My
432. Environmental offsets 1. Introduction
An environmental offset is an environmental project that is undertaken to compensate for environmental damage caused by some economic activity, such as establishing a mine
431. Webinar on economics of urban park designs
Claire Doll and I are presenting a webinar on Economic evaluation of alternative urban park designs that conserve irrigation water , for the UWA Centre for