The concept of ecosystem services, especially in combination with economic valuation, can
illuminate trade-offs involved in soil management, policy and governance, and thus support …

Soil erosion produces both on‐site private costs and off‐site social costs, such as
desertification, rural depopulation, siltation of waterways and reductions in biodiversity. To …

Land degradation has not been comprehensively addressed at the global level or in
developing countries. A suitable economic framework that could guide investments and …

The paper estimates the benefits of programmes to mitigate the off-site impacts of soil
erosion for a watershed in Andalusia, Spain. Two stated preference methods are used …

In order to evaluate the landscape and its agrarian components in the low mountainous
region of the Alpujarras in Southeastern Spain, Conjoint Analysis (CA) was used, and both …

Soil water erosion is one of the most important environmental problems for the sustainability
of Mediterranean olive groves on hillsides. Governments and public agencies recognize the …

Benefit transfer is a cost‐effective method for estimating the value of environmental goods
that relies on information obtained in previous studies. The multiattribute approach of choice …

This paper describes the results of a choice experiment measuring social benefits for
sustainable management practices and agricultural land preservation. Sustainable …

Executive summary The available literature relating to the economic costs of hill country soil
erosion and the benefits of its control in New Zealand and overseas was reviewed and …

Traditionally, the benefits of erosion control projects in Mediterranean watersheds were
valued by the replacement cost method (RCM). Nowadays, however, environmental …