Alternatives for Environmental Valuation

ISBN-13: 9780415310123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str.

Michael Getzner; Clive L. Spash; Sigrid Stagl

Opis

Methods for raising awareness of how human s value the environment range from monetary valuation through to greater public participation in decisions. In this book a group of international experts explore innovative alternatives which are critically evaluated and compared. Lessons are drawn from both the successes and failures of different approaches. Case studies address a wide variety of cutting edge environmental problems from agro-forestry and wetlands to climate change, biodiversity and genetically modified organisms."

Spis treści

1. Exploring Alternatives for Environmental Valuation  Part 1: Extending the Environmental Valuation Approach  2. A Framework for Valuing Nature: Regional Biodiversity   3. Non-Use Values and Attitudes: Wetlands Threatened by Climate Change  4. Modelling Environmental Behaviour: Socio-Psychological Simulation  Part 2: Taking Multiple Criteria into Account  5. Assessing the Quality of Different MCDA Methods  6. MCDA and Stakeholder Participation: Valuing Forest Resources  7. Confronting Risk with Precaution: A Multi-Criteria Mapping of Genetically Modified Crops  Part 3: Deliberation, Participation and Value Expression  8. Consumer Valuation and Citizen Deliberation: Towards a Comparison  9. Three Approaches to Valuing Nature: Forest Floodplain Restoration  10. Deliberation and Economic Valuation: National Park Management  11. The Challenges of Stakeholder Participation: Agri-Environmental Policy  12. Preference Transformation Through Deliberation: Protecting World Heritage

O autorze

Michael Getzner, Clive Spash, Sigrid Stagl