This book explains how to use stated preference survey methods to measure people's
preferences based on decision making in hypothetical choice situations. Along with giving …

An increased emphasis on integrated water management at a catchment scale has led to
the development of numerous modelling tools. To support efficient decision making and to …

Pressure from conservationists and increasing regulation, means that environmental
considerations are increasingly important for the sugar industry. This book examines the …

Tropical forest landscapes face competing demands for conserving biodiversity, sustaining
ecosystem services and accommodating production systems such as forestry and …

Sugarcane is cultivated on about 26 M ha across tropics and subtropics worldwide as a
source of many industrial products, especially sugar and also bioenergy purposes (biofuel …

Increasingly, landscapes are managed for multiple objectives to balance social, economic,
and environmental goals. The Ex‐Mega Rice Project (EMRP) peatland in Central …

CONTEXT The ancient irrigation systems in Sri Lanka, known as village tank cascade
systems, were developed to ensure an adequate and sustainable supply of good quality …

Choice modelling is an emerging approach to estimating the non-use values of
environmental services with multiple attributes. In this paper, results are reported of a choice …

Policy makers in the agricultural sector are confronted with challenges which might drive
land use change and ultimately agricultural profitability to a substantial degree. The …

Based on farmers' preferences this study estimates the non-market values of agri-
environmental attributes and their changes within the study area. The analysis is carried out …