Adherence to Best Practices for Stated Preference Valuation within the U.S. Marine Ecosystem Services Literature

IndIces of BIotIc IntegrIty In stated Preference ValuatIon of aquatIc ecosystem serVIces

Stated preference surveys often give minimal attention to distinctions between intermediate and final ecosystem services, leading to the potential for biased or ambiguous welfare estimates. This paper illustrate ways in which multimetric ecological indexes of the type developed in the ecological literature, here an index of biotic integrity, can be used in stated preference scenarios to both im...

Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services Valuation for Policy and Management

Stated Preference Methods for Valuation of Forest Attributes

The valuation methods described in this chapter are based on the idea that forest ecosystems produce a wide variety of goods and services that are valued by people. Rather than focusing attention on the holistic value of forest ecosystems as is done in contingent valuation studies, attribute-based valuation methods (ABMs) focus attention on a set of attributes that have management or policy rel...

Valuation of Ecosystem Services

A framework for ecosystem services valuation.

In the recent article, “Managing Invasive Aquatic Plants in a Changing System: Strategic Consideration of Ecosystem Services,” Hershner and Havens (2008) reject the need to manage certain aquatic plant invaders. The authors claim that Phragmites australis invasion is acceptable because it provides three ecosystem services: habitat, soil stabilization, and nutrient uptake and retention. We stron...