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Environmental economics 

By studying economic costs and benefits using state-of-the art economic techniques COWI analyses the relationships between the economy and the environment.
Our experience in the field of environmental economics covers a range of sectors including transport, solid waste management, energy, wastewater, water and chemicals. Our economists typically join forces with COWI's engineering and environmental specialists to provide qualified cross-disciplinary advice and solutions.

 

Services

Our services in this field include:

  • welfare economics
  • cost benefit analysis
  • regulatory cost effectiveness analysis
  • valuation of externalities
  • use of market based instruments
  • development of methodology for applied welfare economic analysis
  • impact assessment
  • policy analysis
  • benchmarking

Customers

Our clients include a number of national and international institutions, the latter including the OECD, the European Commission, the European Environment Agency and EuropeAid.


Method

COWI is widely recognised as the leading Danish consulting company within welfare economic analyses with many years of experience in developing methodology for applied welfare economic analysis. Thus we are able to carry out sound economic analyses of proposed environmental regulation based on state-of-the-art methodologies.

We also attach much importance to the presentation of our work.

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