What are the essential elements of a cost recovery model?

A project has costs of $10 million per year for 10 years. The benefits of $30 million per year occur in years 7, 8, 9, and 10. At a 5% discount rate, is this project socially desirable? (Assume that costs and benefits accrue on the last day of each year). A. B. C. D. The project is socially desirable; net benefits are $2.2 million. The project is socially undesirable; net benefits are -$20 million. The project is socially undesirable; net benefits are -$0.7 million. The project is socially desirable; net benefits are $20 million

A group of 100 residents in a small community have decided to pay for a local police force. Each resident has the same marginal valuation schedule for intensity of police protection per day which is defined in terms of the number of police officers on duty Q as MV (Q) = 30 - 4Q. The protection is a public good and it costs $200 per police officer per day. (a) What number of police officers is efficient? (b) Explain why this level of protection might not be provided in a competitive market.

Which of the following is not considered a strength of the environmental economics approach?   a.     companies will be motivated to try and reduce environmental impacts to have more economic gain.   b.     market-based solutions offer incentives for behavioural changes that directly address the issue at hand, fostering tangible change.   c.   policies with significant economic costs often face rejection.   d.   it assigns price/ quantitative value to natural resources, making it easier to weigh the impacts and awareness on how companies/people use it.     e.     it tries to balance the resource that you have, whatever it may be, to use and manage it appropriately and tries not to have any negative impacts on our environment.

What missing elements would need to be supplied to create an efficient market in water in California?Choose one or more: A.Ownership rights for surface water B.Ownership rights for groundwater C.Better means of transporting water over long distances D.More reservoirs to store captured water E.Centralized water-trading exchanges F.Removal of legal barriers to selling unused water Note:- Please refrain from offering handwritten solutions. Please ensure that your response maintains accuracy and quality to avoid receiving a downvote. Take care of plagiarism. Answer completely. You will get up vote for sure.

In the context of environmental economics, the "tragedy of the commons" refers to: A) The efficient allocation of resources when property rights are well-defined and enforced. B) The overuse and depletion of common - pool resources due to individual incentives to maximize personal gain, leading to suboptimal outcomes for society. C) The creation of externalities that are fully internalized by market participants. D) The optimal provision of public goods through voluntary cooperation among individuals.

Why might a wetland ecologist scoff at an economist when the economist claims to have come up with a "value" for wetlands, for use in benefit-cost analysis? Keep in mind that economists and ecologists tend to have very different ideas about the concept of “value” for environmental resources?  Explain the differences between the concept of “existence value” for an economist, and the concept of “intrinsic value” for an ecologist.

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Do you believe expenditures for child care and fitness facilities are warranted from a cost-benefit perspective? Why or why not?

A county transportation agency has asked you to suggest the allocation of bridge preservation budget of 50 million between Interstate and non-Interstate highway bridges. Political considerations require that urban populations receive at least $25 million in benefits and rural areas at least $10 million. As a rule of thumb, a $1 million investment yields total user benefits of $1.25 million for $1 million spent on Interstate highway bridges. $1 million for $1 million spent on non-Interstate highway bridges. The research also indicates that the distribution of benefits for each highway is.as shown in the attached table a) Formulate a linear programming (LP) problem to maximize total user benefits subject to the agency’s constraints