On Measuring Economic Values for Nature†

Student essays on economic values of nature of Bonaire

Measuring values for cross-cultural research

This paper investigates the empirical relevance of the recent critique that values surveys, as they are, suffer from the problem of measuring marginal preferences rather than values. By surveying items from cross-cultural surveys by Hofstede, Inglehart and GLOBE, we show that the marginal preferences problem is pervasive, even in cases where improved survey items are used. As an alternative to ...

Economic reasons for conserving wild nature.

On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of remaining natural habitats has continued largely unabated. However, evidence has been accumulating that such systems generate marked economic benefits, which the available data suggest exceed those obtained from continued h...

Economic Values for Meat Quality Traits

and Implications A method was developed to calculate economic values for pork quality traits for use in genetic selection. The method considers the normal variability of pork quality traits within a herd or population. The parameters required for this method are the mean, standard deviation, and range of the quality trait within the herd or population, and the relationship of the level of the q...

Measuring Economic Progress

Economists have been inquiring into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations for centuries,1 but the regular and systematic construction of official quantitative measures of relative economic progress is a phenomenon of recent decades. A key role in this transformation was played by Colin Clark, who held that ‘[c]omparisons of economic welfare between one community and another, one econom...