Confronting uncertainty and missing values in environmental value transfer as applied to species conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1407-1417

  Akter, Sonia ^a   Grafton, R Quentin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental value transfer; Nonuse values; Species conservation; Transfer error; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVEY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; UNCERTAINTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77957150934     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01489.x     Document Type: Article

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