Rocio Salado, a Consultant at RPA, has degrees in Economics and Sustainability and Environmental Policy. Since joining RPA in 2001, she has contributed to a range of economics and policy evaluation related projects.   Ms Salado has assisted with a number of projects involving cost benefit analysis, environmental resource valuation and risk management.   Ms Salado has also been involved with a scoping study on undertaking socio-economic analysis in the context of the new EU Chemical Policy (REACH); studies on approaches for Option Appraisal in the field of flood and coastal risk management and various aspects of the Water Framework Directive.   She is experienced in the development of methodologies and their application to the valuation of health, environmental and economic impacts and the assessment of disproportional costs.