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

Understanding farmers' willingness to participate in agricultural payment‐for‐environmental‐
services (PES) programmes is an essential precondition for designing effective and efficient …

Transferring carbon from the atmosphere into terrestrial sinks through carbon sequestration
practices (so-called 'carbon farming') has been proposed as an important component in …

Climate change scenarios predict an increase of extreme rain events, which will increase
the risk of wastewater flooding and of missing legal water quality targets. This study elicits …

Although monitoring is crucial for environmental science and policy, few studies have
assessed its value for the public. To value the public preferences for environmental …

There is evidence that damaged peatlands can negatively affect the delivery of water related
ecosystem services. There is interest in peatland restoration to meet different regulatory …

Stated preference studies tell respondents that policies create environmental changes with
varying levels of uncertainty. However, respondents may include their own a priori …

Abstract The Water Framework Directive (WFD) establishes that Programme of Measures
(PoMs) to manage aquatic ecosystems have to be assessed to determine whether the …

The outcome of a conservation policy is often subject to uncertainty. In stated preference
valuation, it is increasingly recognised that uncertainty affects preferences for the outcomes …

Valuation studies about environmental goods, eg biodiversity, often use characteristics and
indicators that seem ecologically sound. But ecological value and public value are not …