Environmental remediation project of Cunha Baixa mining area cost benefit analysis

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

In the present time it has been growing a conscience about environmental problems. In this project it is intended to perform a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of a specific environmental problem: Uranium mining exploration. The selected project was the Environmental Remediation of Cunha Baixa’s Mining Area. From this CBA it will be possible to understand the economic reliability of this sort of project using one criteria of efficiency. The CBA performed show a wide variety of interpretations given the assumptions made, becoming clear the great impact that Human decisions can have.