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Dear John,
I graduated from Appalachian in 2001 and now work for Conservation Strategy Fund, an organization in California that focuses on global conservation work through the use of economics. I’m reaching out to you because we’re in the process of creating an exciting new resource and hope you or your students could benefit from it. We’re developing a series of animated videos that tackle such topics as market failure, valuation methods, fisheries econ, forestry econ and cost-benefit analysis for starters. Our first two videos, on public goods and a CBA overview, are up and we’re adding more almost weekly. We think they could easily serve as complements to lectures or as refreshers on concepts learned previously.Take a look if you get a chance and we welcome any feedback you may have. And I hope you are enjoying the current season in Boone, I remember it as being one of the best times of the year.Here’s the link to our YouTube channel if you want to subscribe and be notified whenever a new one is published: https://www.youtube.com/user/numbers4nature
I've subscribed to the YouTube channel and watched the "CBA" overview video (more are promised on details of "BCA"). It is very good and I'll show it to my class this fall.
Why would you call it cost-benefit analysis when net benefits = benefits - costs? Therefore, I strongly prefer benefit-cost analysis.
