Wetlands are highly productive ecosystems, providing a number of goods and services that
are of value to people. The open-access nature and the public-good characteristics of …

Wetlands provide a range of valuable ecosystem services from water purification and
nutrient retention to recreation and aesthetics. The value of these services is often difficult to …

This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference
(SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulated body of peer …

Local protests against renewable energy facilities have added fuel to the debate about the
so-called NIMBY (not in my back yard) effect. This paper identifies six 'variables' that can …

The purpose of this paper is to provide ecologists and resource managers with a sense of
where the economic science of ecosystem valuation has come from and where it might go in …

We review the literature regarding the aggregation of benefit value estimates for non-market
goods. Two case studies are presented through which we develop an approach to …

The need for economic analysis for the design and implementation of efficient water
resources management policies is well documented in the economics literature. This need is …

Benefit transfer uses research results from pre‐existing primary research to predict welfare
estimates for other sites of policy significance for which primary valuation estimates are …

Open space provides a range of benefits to citizens of a community, beyond the benefits that
accrue to private landowners. Parks and natural areas can be used for recreation; wetlands …

One of the main problems in using environmental cost–benefit analysis is deciding on the
relevant population: whose benefits should we count? This is important since aggregate …