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The Mandelbrot Project: A Case Study in Applied Decision-Making in Environmental Economics. Ruitenbeek J. 2000 [November]. Prepared for IDRC/EEPSEA (Economy and Environment Program for South East Asia), Singapore (www.eepsea.org)
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The material in this package is background material prepared for EEPSEA by Jack Ruitenbeek. Ownership of this material resides with the International Development Research Centre through its representative EEPSEA (http://www.eepsea.org).
In this package you will find the following:
1. A convenor's package (uneditable) in *.PDF format [Click to download Mandel.pdf]. This requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to read, available at www.adobe.com as a free download for any platform.
2. The same document as an MS Word document [in two parts: Click to download Mandel01.DOC and Mandel02.DOC]. This is editable should you wish to modify the material for your own purposes. Please contact EEPSEA (http://www.eepsea.org) to obtain permission to use this material in a commercial training context.
3. A sample spreadsheet in Excel format [Click to download Mandel.XLS]. Only selected cells of the spreadsheet are editable to show the impacts of selected scenarios. This prevents inadvertent changing of the formulae. Please note that this is a 'minimalist' analytical spreadsheet. It shows cash flows for single investment and operating revenues and factors all other NPV from these as it is assumed that no differential cost/revenue escalation occurs. If at any time you are prompted for a password to access the spreadsheet, type in the following (lower case letters):
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4. The additional file in this package also provides a potential "improved" Option [Click to download Mandel_Best.XLS] that picks and chooses parts of the Options A and B. Essentially, the improved Option includes Option A plus partial investment in a road and full investment in a filled-in wetland. The fish landing site is not moved and resource exports go via rail to the dedicated "Option A" port. This is one potential "improved Option" that may emerge from the role playing exercise. Information regarding this option should not be given to anybody prior to the exercise.
For clarification, we also note here for the record that the consultant report contains the following deliberate typographical errors relating to operating costs:
1. The table showing cash flow summaries places the "operating and maintenance" costs of $3.5 million in the wrong column. The $3.5 million/yr entry belongs under Option B but not under Option A. The text that refers to this reads correctly, showing Option A operating costs to be lower than Option B operating costs. This transposition is a typographical error and does not affect the final results or calculations.
2. The text that refers to that same table states that reclamation expenses are $4 million/yr whereas the table shows $5 million/yr. The correct figure is $5 million/yr and all calculations in the report are consistent with the $5 million/yr operating expense.
The convenor may treat this information in a number of different ways, depending on the specific intent of the exercise.
1. Not inform anybody of this.
2. Inform only "Dr Econo", who may then volunteer the information or provide it should the issue arise.
3. Advise all participants.
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Jack Ruitenbeek
875 Buttercup Rd
Gabriola, BC Canada V0R1X5
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