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For over 20 years, CEG founder Lisa Wainger has provided economic analytical tools and insights to government agencies, non-profit groups, and companies seeking to improve environmental and social outcomes while also minimizing business or operational costs.
Our Mission
We work with managers to design projects for a variety of needs including measuring economic benefits, minimizing costs and risks, and optimizing program design. We use a diverse set of tools, including spatial data (GIS) analysis, trend analysis, and expert elicitation via interviews and workshops, to provide insights and compare alternative actions. A specialty is creating performance metrics, using available data, in order to quantify ecosystem service values of environmental management in monetary and non-monetary terms. We use rigorous integration of ecological and economic tools to support evidence-based decision making.
Recent Activities
- Economic and social performance metrics for wetland restoration, living shoreline development, and community engagement projects used to evaluate return on investment.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of a proposed nutrient credit trading program.
- Evaluating potential effectiveness of economic incentives for oyster aquaculture business growth.
- Economic benefits analysis of fish passages added to dams, including commercial and recreational fishing.
- Developing corporate sustainability metrics to promote future biodiversity.