Respondents were shown brief statements (“headlines”) referring to various threats to the
environment or to public health, and other public issues. An intervention to deal with each …

In the contingent valuation method for the valuation of public goods, survey respondents are
asked to indicate the amount they are willing to pay (WTP) for the provision of a good. We …

Concerns have been raised that payment cards used in contingent valuation method studies
may be subject to range and centering biases. This paper develops a payment card using …

Respondent experience (ie, a respondent's information set) has long been suspected to
influence contingent valuation estimates of environmental values. We assess the influence …

This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how
research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting …

This paper explores further some of the ideas put forward by McInerney (1993) in his
economic perspective of animal welfare. It uses a simple economic framework to consider …

Despite increasing attention paid to the value of marine resources, in particular marine
protected areas (MPAs), their economic valuation focuses mainly on use values of …

Expected utility (EU) theory is used to derive a simple normative model for ranking
endangered species preservation programs. In contrast to the current priority system, the EU …

Assessing public preferences for natural resources is a difficult task. The complexity of the
research problem has encouraged practitioners to adopt qualitative approaches as …

This article examines the sensitivity of survey measures of willingness to pay for public
goods. Visitors to a science museum in San Francisco were asked to provide estimates of …