A Retrospective Stated Preference Approach to Assessment of Coastal Infrastructure Investments: An Application to Barbados

Ex-post economic impact evaluations are standard requirements for loans and grants from multilateral international development institutions. In many cases, however, lack of sufficient baseline or historical data, or the very nature of the investment itself renders orthodox economic impact evaluation approaches unviable. Nonetheless, evaluations are required to provide an indication of the benefits generated by the investment and insights for future program design. Addressing this challenge, this paper develops an ecosystem service, retrospective stated preferences approach to assess the benefits of a coastal infrastructure investment in Barbados. Results show that the investment generated cultural and aesthetic ecosystem service benefits for tourists and residents, and that local businesses derived value and avoided some damage costs from the enhancement of regulatory ecosystem services. The approach is versatile facing data constraints and generates policy-relevant information to support decisions to scale up interventions, catalyze additional investment, and provide data on user preferences that can be incorporated in the design of future interventions.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors:	Onil Banerjee
Format:	Working Papers biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:	Coastal Infrastructure, Ecosystem Service, Impact Evaluation, Tourism, Hurricane, Disaster Risk Management, Infrastructure Investment, Monitoring and Evaluation, Climate Change, C51 - Model Construction and Estimation, F21 - International Investment • Long-Term Capital Movements, Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects, Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services • Biodiversity Conservation • Bioeconomics • Industrial Ecology,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011762 https://publications.iadb.org/en/retrospective-stated-preference-approach-assessment-coastal-infrastructure-investments-application
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