Valuing and Managing Ecosystems: Economic
Research Sponsored by NSF/EPA Proceedings of the first Workshop in the Environmental
Policy and Economics Workshop Series
Summary
The purpose of the Environmental Policy
and Economics Workshop Series is to hold in-depth workshops on
timely
topics that will further the use of economics as a tool for environmental
decision making. Both NSF/EPA grant recipients and researchers
(from EPA, fellow Federal agencies, academia, and others) will
be invited
to attend and discuss their on-going research. Topics will be chosen
based on relevance to current EPA issues and, more broadly, to
issues of concern to the environmental economics community. These
topics
will include exploration of innovations in economic research methods
as well as how research will further environmental policy making
and future environmental economic studies. "Valuing and Managing
Ecosystems: Economic Research Sponsored by NSF/EPA" was the first
workshop of this series. The Workshop included the following
papers:
Morning Session – Estimating the Value of Ecosystem
Resources
Paper
One:"Valuing Research Leads: Bioprospecting and the Conservation of Genetic
Resources," by Gordon Rausser and Arthur Small
Paper Two: "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in the Conservation of Biological
Diversity," by Andrew Solow, Stephen Polasky, Jeffrey Camm, Raymond O'Connor
and Blair Csuti
Afternoon
Session – Improving Stated Preference Valuation of
Ecosystems
Paper One: "Developing Conjoint Stated Preference Methods
for Valuation of Environmental Resources
Within Their Ecological Context," by James Opaluch and Stephen
Swallow
Paper Two: "Methods and Applications for Ecosystem Valuation:
A Collage," by Stephen Swallow, Michael Spencer, Christopher Miller, Peter
Paton, Robert Deegen, Laurienne Whinstanley,
and Jason Shogren.
