Successful conservation needs to be informed by social science because it is closely linked
to socio-economic processes and human behaviour. Limited knowledge about ecosystems' …

Policy makers have responded to concerns over declining levels of biodiversity by
introducing a range of policy measures including agri-environment and wildlife management …

This study analyses Finnish citizens' valuations of forest conservation programmes for
southern Finland. Contingent valuation (CV) and choice experiment (CE) methods were …

Meta-analysis has increasingly been used to synthesise the environmental valuation
literature, but only a few test the use of these analyses for benefit transfer. These are …

Automobile exhaust emissions have been one of the serious air pollution sources in most
Chinese cities and the adoption of new energy vehicles (NEVs) can solve this problem to …

Stated preference (SP) surveys have been conducted to value non-timber benefits (NTBs)
from forests in Norway, Sweden and Finland for about 20 years. The paper first reviews the …

The paper attempts to improve current understanding of the economic value of biodiversity.
Instead of the prevailing approach of using only one indicator of biodiversity (typically …

The monetary assessment of biodiversity measures the welfare damages brought by
biodiversity losses and the cost-benefit analysis of conservation projects in a socio …

It is commonly assumed that respondents' lack of familiarity with the valued resource causes
invalid and unreliable responses in contingent valuation surveys. With non-users' …

Forest degradation is a severe threat to the provision of ecosystem services, such as timber
production, biodiversity and hydrogeological protection. Forest abandonment is one of the …