ABSTRACT

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.

part |2 pages

PART I Extending the environmental valuation approach

chapter 2|28 pages

A framework for valuing nature

Regional biodiversity

chapter 3|18 pages

Non-use values and attitudes

Wetlands threatened by climate change

chapter 4|28 pages

Modelling environmental behaviour

Socio-psychological simulation

part |2 pages

PART II Taking multiple criteria into account

chapter 6|25 pages

MCDA and stakeholder participation

Valuing forest resources

chapter 7|26 pages

Confronting risk with precaution

A multi-criteria mapping of genetically modified crops

part |2 pages

PART III Deliberation, participation and value expression

chapter 8|22 pages

Consumer valuation and citizen deliberation

Towards a comparison

chapter 9|16 pages

Three approaches to valuing nature

Forest floodplain restoration

chapter 10|19 pages

Deliberation and economic valuation

National park management

chapter 11|19 pages

The challenges of stakeholder participation

Agri-environmental policy

chapter 12|27 pages

Preference transformation through deliberation

Protecting world heritage