A tax-fund system has been proposed to advance Swedish forest conservation. We present a choice experiment with Swedish … private forest owners on preferences for attributes of a tax-fund system. Focusing on three aspects: (i) freedom to choose set …-asides, (ii) equity issues, and (iii) frequency of nature inventories, we find two groups of forest owners. The first is opposed …

results show that biodiversity loss is having an effect on forest ecosystem values. In addition, these effects reveal to be …The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services … ecosystems provide to society. Based on this framework, we first compile market and non-market forest valuation studies and …