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Minimum Data Modeling for Policy Analysis of Ecosystem Services Supply and Technology Adoption
The goal of Tradeoff Analysis is to support informed policy decision making. The goal of policy modeling should be to provide timely analysis that is sufficiently accurate to inform policy decision making. In many cases, data, time and other resources are not available to allow use of the full Tradeoff Analysis system. The Minimum Data approach was developed to enable analysts to provide timely information by utilizing available secondary data and other relevant information.
This page provide access to the Minimum Data Model developed by Antle and Valdivia (2006) in Excel (a SAS version is also available upon request). The Minimum Data Model comes with a User Guide as well as a document describing the logic of the model (see the Documentation subdirectory).
A PowerPoint presentation about the MD approach is also available, as well as publications related to the MD approach.
Minimum Data Model
Related Publications (pdf's available on request)
Antle, J.M. and J.J. Stoorvogel. 2006. "Predicting the Supply of Ecosystem Services from Agriculture." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(5):1174-1180.
Antle, J.M. and R.O. Valdivia. 2006. "Modeling the Supply of Ecosystem Services from Agriculture: A Minimum Data Approach." Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50:1-15.
Immerzeel, W., J. Stoorvogel and J. Antle. 2007. "Can Payments for Ecosystem Services Secure the Water Tower of Tibet?" Agricultural Systems 96:52-63.
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