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Financial methods in environmental decisions
This free course, Financial methods in environmental decisions, begins by introducing some of the tools that can be used to assess the benefits of investment decisions, including ways of assessing the ‘external costs’ – the wider costs and benefits to society as a whole – of environmental decisions.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
After studying this course you should be able to:
- understand techniques for the financial appraisal of projects
- understand private and external costs of environmental impacts and their mitigation
- understand methods for assessing the economics of environmental impacts
- understand discounted cash flow (DCF)
- work with numerical data.
First Published: 09/11/2015
Updated: 29/11/2018
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This explains how different impacts on environment are taxed by governments and how to think about the effect different things will have locally . It tells you the pros and cons of somethings and there are some simple exercises in parts. For a free course this isn't too bad