Evaluating Nature Conservation: The Case of Meadow Birds in The Netherlands
| dc.creator | Strijker, Dirk | |
| dc.creator | Sijtsma, F.J. | |
| dc.creator | Bettels, K. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:50:32Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T03:54:47Z | |
| dc.description | Healthy growth towards sustainability requires evaluation methods that incorporate ecological and economic effects. Evaluating ecological effects in monetary terms would permit the use of Cost-Benefit Analysis. Major methodological difficulties hamper use of this approach. In this paper an alternative evaluation method is used. The method consists of a Multicriteria Analysis (MCA), in which the different aspects of nature conservation projects can be evaluated in their own terms. The net result of the monetarised effects is part of a CBA that is integrated as one of the criteria. This framework is applied to a major, publicly financed nature conservation project in the Netherlands. The project is based on a fixed budget and a fixed area in which nature can be produced using different methods. In this project, apart from analysing the net results, besides the net results of a CBA, only one other criterion is analysed: the production of nature. In this way, the concept is reduced to a straightforward analysis of the performance (cost-effectiveness) of the different methods used to produce natural environment. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.26457 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/26457/files/01020054.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/26457 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/541871 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/26457 | |
| dc.title | Evaluating Nature Conservation: The Case of Meadow Birds in The Netherlands | |
| dc.type | Text |