Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nature-based solutions (NBS) provide a promising means to a climate resilient future. To guide investments in NBS, stated preference studies have become a common tool to evaluate the benefits of NBS in developing countries. Due to subsistence lifestyles and generally lower incomes, SP studies in developing countries increasingly use time payments as an alternative to the traditionally implemented money payments. It remains unclear, however, how time values should be converted into money values, how the payment affects willingness to pay (WTP) estimates, and how this influence varies across settings with different levels of market integration. We compare the results of choice experiments that use either time or money payments and that are implemented in urban and rural Ghana. The choice experiments target to value different NBS aimed at erosion prevention and other ecosystem service benefits along t
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John Elton Ross
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Obituary
Madison: John Elton Ross, distinguished emeritus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and pioneer in the study of the role of mass communication in environmental decision making died December 3, 2020. He was 94.
John was a faculty member at the UW from 1956-1992, holding a joint appointment in Agricultural Journalism and Environmental Science. He served as Executive Director of the Pilot Project for Environmental Sciences from 1966-1968 and was instrumental in founding the groundbreaking Institute for Environmental Studies (IES) in 1970. As Associate Director of IES from 1970-1978, he oversaw development of an undergraduate program in Environmental Sciences