The concept of ecosystem services has shifted our paradigm of how nature matters to
human societies. Instead of viewing the preservation of nature as something for which we …

This paper provides a review of research contributions on forest management and planning
using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) based on an exhaustive literature survey. The …

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

There has been an explosion of interest during the past two decades in a class of nonmarket
stated-preference valuation methods known as choice experiments. The overall objective of …

1. The foundations of economic valuation 1.1 The uses of economic valuation 1.2 The nature
of economic valuation and economic efficiency 1.3 Economic valuation and other values 1.4 …

The measurement of passive use values has become an important issue in environmental
economics. In this paper we examine an extension or variant of contingent valuation, the …

Surveys are frequently used by businesses and governments to elicit information about the
public's preferences. They have become the most common way to gather preference …

This paper we outline the “choice experiment” approach to environmental valuation. This
approach has its roots in Lancaster's characteristics theory of value, in random utility theory …

The demand for better representation of cultural considerations in environmental
management is increasingly evident. As two cases in point, ecosystem service approaches …

This paper provides the latest research developments in the method of choice experiments
applied to valuation of non-market goods. Choice experiments, along with the, by now, well …