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Soils provide multiple benefits for human well-being, which are largely invisible to most beneficiaries. Here, we present the results of a discrete choice experiment into the preferences of Germans for soil-based ecosystem services. To tackle complexity and unfamiliarity of soils, we express...
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modelling open-access recreation demand that can be applied to recreation planning and environmental decision-making at any …
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. Environmental economists have combined these data with the public goods experienced by respondents using a novel non …
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We study the heterogeneity of preferences regarding the limited substitutability of environmental public goods vis …-a-vis private consumption goods and how it affects the economic valuation of environmental public goods. We show theoretically that … mean marginal willingness to pay for an environmental public good decreases in society’s mean substitutability preference …
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projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily … apply differentiated discount rates, such as a lower environmental discount rate, or account for increases in relative … scarcity by uplifting environmental values. Some governments already integrate this into their guidance, but empirical evidence …
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The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...
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This collection presents an updated bibliography of those empirical forest ecosystem service valuation studies in the German speaking countries which relate to demand oriented measures of the utility of public goods. The associated database (which is provided as a separately downloadable...
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