How does INFFER add value?
Compared to how prioritisation decisions are often made by environmental managers, INFFER provides a number of important advantages. i. It allows systematic comparison of investment options across all types of NRM issues, not just within any one category (such as biodiversity). ii. It helps users ensure that their projects are defined in a way that is internally consistent. This means that projects can be compared validly, rather than favouring the project that has been exaggerated the most. iii. It highlights the need to assess the technical feasibility of achieving a specific goal. iv. It highlights the need to assess the adoptability or otherwise of works at the required scale. v. It helps choose the most appropriate class of policy tools using the Public: Private Benefits Framework. vi. INFFER includes all of the relevant criteria in one system. Most other systems we have looked at omit crucial elements, or allow decision makers to proceed without ensuring that they have all the es
