The concept of ecosystem services has shifted our paradigm of how nature matters to
human societies. Instead of viewing the preservation of nature as something for which we …

The main objectives of the paper are to (1) give an overview of the state of the art of
environmental value transfer,(2) discuss its prospects and potential role in CBA as a …

The crucial role which natural systems play in underpinning economic activity and human
wellbeing is of growing concern as evidence mounts of the increasing human pressures …

The demand for timely monetary estimates of the economic value of nonmarket ecosystem
goods and services has steadily increased over the last few decades. This article describes …

In the central region of the Gulf of Mexico, urban growth occurs mainly to support tourism
and results in loss of natural ecosystems and ecosystem services. Our objectives were to …

This paper reports results from a study of the economic value of the conservation benefits of
Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) in Scotland. The main novelty of the approach …

There is growing interest in the potential for producing generally applicable models for
valuing non-market environmental services which do not rely upon expensive and time …

Benefit transfer uses research results from pre‐existing primary research to predict welfare
estimates for other sites of policy significance for which primary valuation estimates are …

We implement a controlled, multi-site experiment to develop and test guidance principles for
benefits transfers. These argue that when transferring across relatively similar sites, simple …

Benefit transfer has been an ongoing, practical analysis for years in legal proceedings and
government policy analyses where timely benefit estimates are critically dependent on the …