3.2 List of assessment and valuation methods
Equally important to understanding the sensitivity behind the delivery of ecosystem services is the understanding of the social and economic benefits arising from ecosystem services. Social and economic assessment methods can be organised through different ways; stated preferences VS revealed preferences, deliberative process VS authoritarian, group based method VS individual based method, multiple attributes VS single attribute. We give below a list of assessment methods which allow for capturing the values of ecosystem services.
ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT METHODS
Habitat mapping: the EUNIS nomenclature
Habitats-functions-services relationship assessment
1.3 Sensitivity assessment
SOCIAL SCIENCES METHODS: Measures of attitudes, preferences, and intentions
Survey questions eliciting information about attitudes, preferences, and intentions
Multi-criteria analysis
Analytic hierarchy process
Behavioural observation
ECONOMIC METHODS
Revealed preference methods
Travel cost
Hedonic pricing
Averting behaviour
Stated preference methods
Contingent valuation
Contingent behaviour
Choice experiment
Benefit transfer
Accounting methods
Ecosystem accounting
CIVIC VALUATION
Referenda or initiatives
Citizen valuation juries
ECOSYSTEM BENEFIT INDICATORS AND BIOPHYSICAL RANKING METHODS
Conservation value method
METHODS USING COST AS A PROXY FOR VALUE
Habitat equivalency analysis
CROSS METHODS
Natural capital project InVEST
Bayesian belief networks
System dynamic modelling
Companion modelling for common pool resources