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Measuring impartial preference for biodiversity

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Date
2017
Indexation documentaire
Economie de la terre et des ressources naturelles
Subject
Biodiversity; Economic valuation; Decision-making; Methodology; Impartialization; Distributive justice
Code JEL
Q.Q5.Q57
Nom de la revue
Ecological Economics
Volume
132
Date de publication
02-2017
Pages article
45-54
Nom de l'éditeur
Elsevier
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.10.007
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/16032
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Meinard, Yves
989 Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision [LAMSADE]
Remy, Alice
50840 Hedmark University College
Schmid, Bernhard
227428 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Résumé en anglais
Biodiversity undergoes unprecedented rates of erosion despite the important services it provides. This is considered evidence that biodiversity is undervalued. Biodiversity valuation is accordingly a prominent issue in the literature. Economic valuations are, however, largely criticized. Numerous alternatives have been introduced. Most of them involve participatory protocols aimed at producing high-quality results. Being time-consuming and expensive, it is difficult to implement and reproduce them at a large scale. We produce an easily reproducible, inexpensive survey methodology to measure impartial preference for biodiversity. We implement it in Switzerland through a mail-based survey. Our result is that biodiversity should be ranked after retirement schemes and public transportation, but before relations with foreign countries, order and security, and culture and leisure in the expanses of the State. Current expenses therefore substantially underestimate the value that Swiss people grant to biodiversity. Our new method is a viable alternative to standard economic valuation. Given the impartiality achieved, at least in the Swiss political context our estimate can be used by decision makers to assess the legitimacy of conservation programs or to gauge public support. At a philosophical level, our measure is relevant for public policies because it captures the stances that people takewhen they participate in public decisions.

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