Alternatives for Environmental Valuation [Hardcover]

Methods for raising awareness of how humans 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.

1. Exploring Alternatives for Environmental Valuation  Part 1: Extending the Environmental Valuation Approach  2. A Framework for Valuing Nature: Regional Biodiversity   3. Non-Use Values and Attitudes: Wetlands Threatened by Climate Change  4. Modelling Environmental Behaviour: Socio-Psychological Simulation  Part 2: Taking Multiple Criteria into Account  5. Assessing the Quality of Different MCDA Methods  6. MCDA and Stakeholder Participation: Valuing Forest Resources  7. Confronting Risk with Precaution: A Multi-Criteria Mapping of Genetically Modified Crops  Part 3: Deliberation, Participation and Value Expression  8. Consumer Valuation and Citizen Deliberation: Towards a Comparison  9. Three Approaches to Valuing Nature: Forest Floodplain Restoration  10. Deliberation and Economic Valuation: National Park Management  11. The Challenges of Stakeholder Participation: Agri-Environmental Policy  12. Preference Transformation Through Deliberation: Protecting World Heritage

This book presents innovative alternatives to monetary approaches for representing environmental values in decision processes, with contributors from Europe and Australia joining together to explore social plóQ