CSIRO Wildlife Research: Special Issue on Prioritising and evaluating biodiversity projects

Some time ago we were invited to submit a paper to the journal CSIRO Wildlife Research.

Our paper, ‘Designing a practical and rigorous framework for comprehensive evaluation and prioritisation of environmental projects’ has just been published, as part of a Special Issue [Wildlife Research, 2013, 40] on Prioritising and evaluating biodiversity projects.

The overall goal for the Special Issue is to inform readers of the paramount importance of project selection and evaluation, to review the range of selection and evaluation methods available, and to provide some insights on their merits, their challenges, potential, and where they are best applied.

In their introduction to the Special Issue, Ross Cullen and Piran White note … “Pannell et al. (2013) outline how a practical, rigorous framework can be used for comprehensive evaluation and prioritisation of environmental projects. Investment Framework for Environmental Resources (INFFER) has been developed to assist environmental project investors design projects, select delivery mechanisms and rank projects on the basis of benefits and costs. The authors have drawn on extensive evaluation experience, decision science and economic theory in the development and field-testing of INFFER. While some alternative evaluation methods are arguably flawed, INFFER provides a practical, effective and accurate tool to support decision-making about environmental projects.”

Reference: Pannell, D.J., Roberts, A.M., Park, G. and Alexander, J. (2013). Designing a practical and rigorous framework for comprehensive evaluation and prioritisation of environmental projects, Wildlife Research 40(2), 126-133.