Measures of attitudes, preferences, and intentions Excerpt from draft SAB Committee report, Valuing the Protection of Ecological Systems and Services: Social-psychological approaches to assessing the value of ecosystems and ecosystem services employ a number of methods
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Systems and Services and has been approved by the chartered SAB, All other text was provided by individual committee members and is offered to extend and elaborate the very brief descriptions provided in chapter 4 of the SAB Report, Valuing the Protection of Ecological Systems and Service and to encourage further deliberation within EPA and the broader scientific community about how to meet the need for an integrated and expanded approach for valuing the protection of ecological systems and services.
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