Work in Progress/Planned Activities
•Valuation of non-market ecological services as to obtain TEV
•assessing the social and economic costs of the nypa palm infestation on affected communities
–Developing a dynamic model of the biological growth of two competing coastal timber species, mangrove and nypa palm
–Setting-up a nonlinear program that seeks to optimize the relative shares of  mangrove and nypa palm in the region
–providing estimates of the optimal distribution of species and the levels and time-paths of investment required to implement a policy that seeks to achieve the optimal distribution of species