Environmental

Assessing environmental impacts and the costs and benefits of low-impact strategies is increasingly important for both the private and public sectors. Judgments on investment to avoid environmental impacts can be unlike other investment and expenditure decisions. With such high public awareness and concern, there can be considerable damage to reputation and subsequently shareholder value, to say nothing of the costs of legal actions and fines. Yet valuing the absolute benefits of environmental investment and the relative returns on alternative strategies can be difficult where there are potential private and public – as well as tangible and intangible – benefits and costs.

Oxford Risk can bring some of the world’s leading academics and consultants to projects that demand the assessment and balancing of market and non-market costs and benefits. Using scientific methodologies, we can survey public opinion to give values to people’s willingness to pay for an improved environment, and the relative importance they place on various issues. Oxford Risk also helps organisations to build compelling arguments and incorporate all this information into decision and investment models.