Optimal Investment in Ecological Rehabilitation under Climate Change

Anke Leroux and Stuart Whitten ()

No 04-14, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Ecological rehabilitation is subject to a variety of risks affecting the likely return on investment. We propose a real options approach to valuing and ranking individual rehabilitation projects, accounting for irreversible investment and the effects of climate change on species loss, future rehabilitation benefits and frequency of catastrophic events. The allocation of voluntary rehabilitation contracts on the basis of option pricing results in significantly greater value for money for the Government as compared with the conventional cost-effectiveness criterion as is illustrated for the case of Box Gum Grassy Woodland rehabilitation in Australia.

Keywords: real options; biodiversity; irreversibility; risk; extinction debt, Box Gum Grassy Woodlands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2014-04
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