Does Eco calculate cost-benefit ratios?

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Does Eco calculate cost-benefit ratios?

Post by i-Tree Support » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:28 pm

No. Eco estimates dollar benefits of ecosystem services based on economic literature. To estimate the cost-benefit ratio, good estimates of management costs of the entire urban forest would be needed. These data are not yet available.
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