Is Valuing Nature Contributing to Policy Development?

Jonathan Burney

Environmental Values, 2000, vol. 9, issue 4, 511-520

Abstract: This paper examines technical, ethical and ecological science perspectives on environmental valuation, and discusses problems in terms of the implications for practical policy-making. It suggests that all these perspectives raise legitimate concerns about the use of stated preference methods, but concludes that such methods still have a role to play in policy making for nature conservation provided they are applied in the right circumstances, designed very carefully, and used in conjunction with other decision-making tools.

Keywords: Nature; biodiversity valuation; ecosystem functions; cost-benefit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1177/096327190000900410

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