@article{Rolfe:59262,
      recid = {59262},
      author = {Rolfe, John and Windle, Jill},
      title = {Comparing a best management practice scorecard with an  auction metric to select proposals in a water quality  tender},
      address = {2010},
      number = {421-2016-26766},
      pages = {21},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {The focus of this paper is to compare different evaluation  frameworks for selecting landholder proposals to improve  water quality. The case study is a water quality tender  performed in the Burdekin region in Northern Australia in  2007/2008 where bids could be assessed using an  inputs-based best management practice scorecard or an  outputs-based auction metric. The scorecard approach and  other variants of multi-criteria analysis are commonly  applied in grant schemes, where landholder proposals are  rated by a range of inputs-based criteria. Output-based  approaches are typically applied in water quality and  conservation tenders, where an environmental benefits index  is constructed to summarise the cost-effectiveness of each  proposal. The case study evaluation reported in this paper  demonstrates that multi-criteria analysis type assessments  are flawed, and that the efficiency of public funding can  be more than doubled by using auction metrics to assess  proposals for landholders to improve water quality.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/59262},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.59262},
}