The increase in greenhouse gas emissions and degradation of water quality and quantity in waterways due to dairy farming in New Zealand have become of growing concern. Compared to traditional sheep and beef cattle farming, ...

Expenditure on endangered species management is increasing greatly, on a global basis. Managers need tools to evaluate the performance of endangered species programmes because there will always be more demand for resources ...

Economics is an evolving and emerging filed of study, so is the management of ecosystems. As such, this paper delineates the co-evolution of economic evaluation that reflects the various recognized ecosystem management ...

Measuring consumer benefits associated with a policy or a project in a world where prices and outcomes are known with certainty is, at least in theory, straightforward. Changes in consumer surplus provide an appropriate ...

Outline • Outline of the biennial perceptions survey. • New Zealanders’ perceptions of freshwater using Pressure-State-Response model – Trends in perceptions – With demographic differences • Comparisons between perceptions ...

Benefit transfer (BT) is a pragmatic way of estimating values by transferring values from existing valuation studies to a target area of interest if there are limited resources or funding available to carry out an original ...

Aims: • Monitor NZers’ perceptions of resources and environmental issues – something increasingly common in other countries; • Contribute to improved state of environment reporting – matching perceptions to science can ...

Adverse environmental impacts from intensification of dairy production include excessive levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, excessive amounts of nitrate leaching to waterways, water usage for irrigation, and loss ...

There are insufficient resources available globally, nationally and in many regions, to conserve all species, habitats and ecosystems. Prioritisation of targets or actions is a rational response to resource scarcity. ...

Most ecosystem services (ES) are neither priced nor marketed. Resource managers may fail to take into account degradation of unpriced services in their resource management decisions. Being able to estimate values for ES ...