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| Upper Thames Major Resource Development | eftec provided economic analysis input to the appraisal process concerning Thames Water’s assessment of water resource options for the south of England up to 2020. The project combined cost benefit analysis, including non-market impacts, and economic impact analysis of multi-billion pound investment actions. It also undertook a stated preference study to incorporate the preferences of Thames water customers to reduce the risk of water use restrictions. | 2007 | Water | Water Management, Waste Water Management | Policy Design | |
| Guidance on the Evidence Required to Justify Disproportionate Cost Decisions under the Water Framework Directive (WFD CRP Project 3) | The WFD allows the competent authorities to set a lesser than ‘good status’ objective or postpone the achievement of good status on the grounds of ‘disproportionate costs’. eftec provided advice on the categorisation and valuation of benefits of WFD measures, the preparation of the guidance and the database of information for benefits assessment. This project produced practical guidance on the evidence needed to justify why taking further measures to improve the status of a water body would be disproportionately expensive. The study guides authorities and other stakeholders on how to assess whether the costs of WFD are likely to be disproportionate. | 2007 | Water | Water Management, Waste Water Management | Valuation, Policy Appraisal | |
| Stated Preference Survey to Estimate Customers’ Willingness to Pay For Company Services | A stated preference survey (using a choice experiment design), which allowed the client to assess the value to their business and residential customers of a wide variety of service provision options. The project was undertaken in three phases: (1) design of stated preference survey (including pilot to confirm robustness); (2) full scale survey; and (3) analysis of survey results and production of willingness to pay estimates. The study established customers’ willingness to pay for different levels of service from UUW. The results allow to assess the value of different levels of service in accordance with regulatory requirements for the 2009 Price Review. | 2007 | Water | Water Management, Waste Water Management | Policy Design | |
| Demand for Cars and their Attributes | The study created a series of econometric models of the UK’s new car market and undertook analysis of new car purchases between 2000 and 2006. The model contained variables covering new vehicle purchases, household characteristics and the fixed and variable costs of motoring. eftec’s report shows which modelling structures give more robust results and the influence of different factors important in determining the demand for new cars. The results allow the Department for Transport to identify factors important in determining the demand for new cars, with particular regard to policies encouraging improved environmental performance in new vehicle models. | 2007 | Air Quality, Public Health, Climate Change | Transport | Policy Design |  |
| Environmental Economics Framework Agreement | This framework agreement enables high quality economic analysis of issues including policy analyses and evaluations, environmental valuation and cost-benefit analyses. | 2007 | - | - | Valuation, Policy Appraisal | |
| Environmental Economics Framework Agreement | This framework agreement includes support on fact-finding, analysis and assessment of areas such as internalising externalities, economic aspects of impact assessment, and determining the cost and benefits of policies and technologies. | 2007 | - | - | Policy Design, Training | |
| Economic Valuation of Environmental Impacts in the Severely Disadvantaged Areas | The study used the choice experiment, stated preference, approach to value environmental attributes of upland areas associated with hill-farming. The study estimated the economic value of the changes in English Severely Disadvantaged Areas associated with the distribution of the Hill Farming Allowance. The study supported assessment of the value of changes to environmental attributes following from potential Hill Farming Allowance policy changes. | 2006 | Land Use, Landscape Management, Biodiversity | Agriculture | Valuation, Policy Design | |
| Valuing our Natural Environment (VONE) | Decisions to use, conserve, enhance or protect the natural environment involve trade-offs, in the form of forgoing alternative uses for both the natural resources involved and for public money. This project reviewed all robust (economic and non-economic) methodologies in terms of their theoretical basis and their use in practice. In addition, the project provided a strategic overview of the existing evidence on the value of the natural environment. The project consulted decision makers in Defra and other stakeholders in terms of their needs for evidence on the value of natural environment and their experience with using different methodologies and conveying their outputs. The report guides the use of valuation methods. It is also referenced in defra’s 'Introductory Guide to Valuing Ecosystem Services'. | 2006 | Ecosystem Services | - | Valuation | |
| Developing Cost Benefit Analysis for Sewer Flooding | During this first phase of the project different conceptual approaches to benefit assessment in the context of sewer flooding were discussed; a review of relevant literature brought suggestions for further work (data collection and analysis through primary and secondary studies). This phase set out a research programme which ensured that subsequent work was theoretically coherent and consistent, and fitted within a CBA framework. The research programme influenced the development of the overall stated preference approach for all the services of Thames Water that commenced in 2007. | 2006 | Water | Water Management, Waste Water Management | Policy Design | |
| The Potential Role of Transferable Development Rights and Transferable Flood Permits in Flood Risk Management | Transferable development rights (TDRs) and transferable flood permits (TFPs) have many features in common with emissions trading regimes, as used, for example, in the field of air pollution policy. This project reviewed the conceptual basis and practical experience with TDRs and TFPs and investigated their potential use in England and Wales. The study outlined how TDRs and TFPs can be used in flood management with the help of case study catchment areas. The study advises the Environmental Agency on the design and use of TDRs and TFPs to deliver cost-effective solutions to policy problems in land use planning and flood risk management. | 2006 | Land Use, Flood Risk Management | - | Policy Design | |
