Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation

Valuation of Ecosystem Services

Ecosystem Valuation: Combining Economics, Philosophy, and Ecology

feasibility of combining two issues “environmental impact assessment” and "ecosystem services valuation” in iran

despite of fifteen years old legislation of environmental impact assessment (eia) in iran, investigations show that there are some kinds of shortcoming in the effectiveness and efficiency of these assessments. although some of these failures were attributed by weakness in the administrative structure, but methodological shortcomings and lack of transparency had an effective role in the these pr...

A framework for ecosystem services valuation.

In the recent article, “Managing Invasive Aquatic Plants in a Changing System: Strategic Consideration of Ecosystem Services,” Hershner and Havens (2008) reject the need to manage certain aquatic plant invaders. The authors claim that Phragmites australis invasion is acceptable because it provides three ecosystem services: habitat, soil stabilization, and nutrient uptake and retention. We stron...

Modeling choice and valuation in decision experiments.

This article develops a parsimonious descriptive model of individual choice and valuation in the kinds of experiments that constitute a substantial part of the literature relating to decision making under risk and uncertainty. It suggests that many of the best known "regularities" observed in those experiments may arise from a tendency for participants to perceive probabilities and payoffs in a...