How much economic expertise is needed?
Not a great deal. The process is designed to inject a Benefit: Cost Analysis mindset into the process without requiring users to actually conduct a Benefit: Cost Analysis. It is a highly structured process, with a lot of detailed guidance provided. The person completing the form needs to be able to estimate the cost of the project actions, and may need to estimate the level of payments to landholders that would be required to achieve particular levels of adoption. Discussion with economists with local knowledge would be helpful in answering these questions, particularly where the project requires actions by commercially oriented landholders.
