This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference
(SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulated body of peer …

This paper reviews the progress made over the past few years in evaluating and controlling
for spatial heterogeneity in stated preference valuation, focussing on applications to …

Benefit transfer is the use of pre-existing empirical estimates from one or more settings
where research has been conducted previously to predict measures of economic value or …

Street space quality assessment refers to the extraction and appropriate evaluation of the
space quality information of urban streets, which is usually employed to improve the quality …

Water quality regulation continues to be controversial, as demonstrated by recent litigation
between the US Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Florida over nutrient …

Medium-sized cities are increasingly committed to the planning and construction of urban
public spaces to meet people's demand for high-quality urban life. Parks and squares are …

In spite of considerable progress in our understanding of ecosystem functioning, our ability
to design effective and enforceable environmental policies requires a deep understanding of …

Wetlands in urban and urbanizing areas are often smaller, more degraded, and subject to
more stressors than those in undeveloped locations. Their restored level of functioning may …

Programs to improve water quality do not improve all water bodies equally. Evaluation of the
benefits of such programs must account for where improvements occur and the relative …

Hedonic property value analysis is one of the leading methods of environmental valuation.
This non-market technique uses variation in home sales to infer the values of amenities or …