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' …

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

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 …

This study reports an application of the contingent valuation method (CV) to estimate the
environmental costs and benefits of hydro-scheme developments in an Icelandic wilderness …

Economic valuation of ecosystem services by stated preferences techniques is usually used
by policy-makers to develop environmental management practices. Critics of the contingent …

In addition to environmental interests vs. timber production, debates on forest conservation
have typically dealt with nationwide vs. local and regional interests. While most previous …

This paper considers some implications of L*-ordering, an incommensurable preference
model proposed in earlier CV literature. The structure and existence of inverse demand …

This paper reports a Contingent Valuation application to estimate the non-market costs and
benefits of hydro scheme developments in an Icelandic wilderness area. A deliberative …

Natura 2000 is a network of natural sites whose aim is to preserve species and habitats of
relevance in the European Union. The policy underlying Natura 2000 has faced widespread …

Competing discourses of the forest guide forest-owners' ideas about the proper forest use
and about the need to conserve biodiversity. In this paper, we examine how five predefined …