Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning
(eg wood) and regulating (eg climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (eg recreation) …

An expanding literature addresses spatial dimensions related to the elicitation, estimation,
interpretation and aggregation of stated preference (SP) welfare measures. Recognizing the …

Stated preference methods are frequently employed to measure people's willingness to pay
(WTP) for ecosystem services. However, these techniques are also criticized for following a …

Ecosystem accounting is a statistical framework that aims to track the state of ecosystems
and ecosystem services, with periodic updates. This framework follows the statistical …

The tension between biodiversity conservation and multipurpose forest management may
lead to conflicts. An internationally prominent example is the Białowieża Forest Massif …

Key message There is a need to improve the consistency of international information
concerning the conservation status assessment of the species and habitat types in the …

Distance decay is a well-known phenomenon affecting welfare measures of localized
improvements in environmental quality. We focus on an often overlooked issue in the …

Understanding how the value of environmental goods and services is influenced by their
location relative to where people live can help identify the economically optimal spatial …

Many wild bee species are threatened across Europe, and with them the pollination function
they provide. While numerous studies have assessed the value of bees as pollinators of …

Valuation of environmental goods and services are frequently spatially heterogeneous, the
significance of this heterogeneity for policy analysis is gradually recognized. For the …