Using Stated Preference Valuation to Support Sustainable Marine Fishery Management

A Meta-analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation

Customer Valuation of Flight Characteristics: a Stated Preference Approach

Knowledge of customer valuation of flight characteristics is important for carriers to decide on service and price levels. It may also be important for regulators to have some knowledge of customer valuation of flight characteristics, as this customer valuation determines to what extent individual flights are substitutes. Furthermore, valuation of characteristics may play a role in infrastructu...

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...

A Pilot Test of a New Stated Preference Valuation Method: Continuous Attribute-Based Stated Choice

A new stated preference technique is developed and tested. In an interactive computerized survey, respondents move continuous sliders to choose levels of environmental attributes. The total cost of the combination of attributes chosen is calculated according to a preprogrammed cost function, and continuously updated and displayed. Each registered choice reveals the respondent’s marginal willing...

Socioeconomic factors influencing sustainable forest management stated preference and behavior in rural Nicaragua

Forest policy throughout Latin America is undergoing a decentralization process in which more of the responsibilities for managing forest resources are delegated to municipal governments, often with mixed success (Larson, 2003). Considered critical for household needs and as biodiversity reserves, forest fragments on private lands comprise one-quarter of the forest resources in developing count...