| Title: |
Evaluating Nature Conservation: The Case of Meadow Birds in The Netherlands |
| Authors: |
Strijker, Dirk; Sijtsma, F.J.; Bettels, K. |
| Publisher Information: |
AgEcon Search |
| Publication Year: |
2000 |
| Subject Terms: |
Environmental Economics and Policy; envir; demo |
| 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. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://purl.umn.edu/26457 |
| Availability: |
http://purl.umn.edu/26457 |
| Rights: |
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| Accession Number: |
edsbas.33A8AC16 |
| Database: |
BASE |