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' …

Abstract Background, Aim and Scope Conjoint analysis and the related choice-modelling
methods have been used for many years in marketing research to evaluate consumer …

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

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

Valuing biodiversity is a key challenge to environmental economics, put into focus by policy
developments everywhere, now increasingly focusing on habitat preservation. This paper …

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 …

Many issues relating to the sustainability of environmental resource use are informed by
environmental valuation studies with stated preference surveys. Within these, researchers …

This paper looks at the question of whether subsistence level/indigenous people place a
value on the preservation of ecosystems independent of direct impacts of environmental …

Scenarios with either 3% or 5% of the productive forest stock in Western Europe set-aside
for conservation are compared to a baseline case. The latter case is further compared to …