Job Description
NGO Jobs, UNEP Jobs.
Responsibilities
The UNEP consultant will:
- Scope and plan a cost/benefit analysis of EBA scenarios in four cities
- Identify the data required to conduct a spatially-explicit assessment of the benefits of EBA measures, based on the extent and condition of ecosystems and nature-positive interventions.
- Identify the key provisioning, regulating and cultural services provided by the proposed EBA measures at the four study sites; and identify the biophysical relationship between these services and the EBA scenarios.
- Liaise with national research assistant to develop a data collection methodology to fill data gaps and prepare data for valuation.
- Estimate the marginal economic value of ecosystem services due to the EBA measures, relative to a do-nothing option that accounts for projected climate change impacts. Estimated ecosystem values will be reported as total annual values for each service and site; and also as the net present value of future years, using a range of discount rates. In addition, the distribution of ecosystem service values across beneficiary groups will be reported.
- Conduct a Cost-Benefit Analysis of EBA scenarios. This involves comparing the costs of conservation and intervention measures (implementation and opportunity costs) against the benefits (value of ecosystem services) relative to the costs of no-action under the most probable climate change scenario.
- The CBA will examine multiple time horizons relevant for land use planning and climate change.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree in Applied or Environmental Economics, Environmental Engineering, or a related field is required.
- A first university degree with a combination of two (2) years professional and academic qualifications may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
- A minimum of five (5) years of professional working experience in the field of ecosystem services modeling, ecosystem services valuation, or ecosystem-based adaptation assessment is required.
- An understanding of the political economy of development planning in SE Asia is desired.
How to Apply
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