This review article examines the importance of valuing environmental resources in the
context of sustainable development. The different values stemming from ocean and coastal …

Over the past two decades, hundreds of stated preference studies have been conducted in
less-developed countries. This article examines what has been learned on the …

The Handbook of Water Economics is presented in three sections: theory, methods and
applications, providing the latest information in the growing area of water economics and the …

This paper argues that there are many challenges to designing and implementing water and
sanitation interventions that actually deliver economic benefits to the households in …

In the Americas as in many other parts of the world, integrated water resources management
(IWRM) originated in the need to find a reasonable compromise among the various …

Flat fees in payment for environmental services (PES) schemes promote administrative
ease, and are perceived as egalitarian. However, when environmental-service (ES) buyers …

Despite uncertainties surrounding the protected Atlantic goliath grouper's stock size and
resilience, fishery managers are under pressure to end the harvest moratorium in place …

Freshwater wetlands provide crucial ecosystem services, though are subject to
anthropogenic/natural stressors that provoke negative impacts on these ecosystems …

Various methods have been applied to evaluating the economic viability of public
investments in tourism. In this article, we capitalize on the strengths of computable general …

An important challenge of integrated water resources management (IWRM) is to balance
water allocation between different users. While economically and/or politically powerful …