Pacific Services Center

Establishing Economic Valuation

American Samoa Economic Valuation Study of Coral Reefs and Nearshore Coastal Resources

PSC worked with NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) to commission local economic valuation studies of coral reefs and nearshore coastal resources in Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. PSC and OCRM funded economists met with local coral reef and coastal managers to design a study to investigate priority local management questions. These studies were the first of their type to be done in the respective territories.

For more information about NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, visit: http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/