Philip Cooper

TL;DR: It is estimated that the overall benefit:cost ratio of an effective global program for the conservation of remaining wild nature is at least 100:1.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on environmental valuation of ecosystem services across the range of global biomes can be found in this article, where the main objective is to assess the policy relevance of the information encompassed by the wide range of valuation studies that have been undertaken so far.

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of attitude and motive strength to interpret willingness-to-pay (WTP) values for a set of nested environmental goods with potential use and nonuse benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present experimental and field tests of the impact upon contingent values of varying the visible choice set through stepwise and advance disclosure, and show that when a stepwise disclosure procedure is adopted, the observed scope sensitivity is substantially and significantly affected by the order in which goods are presented but such procedural variance is not observed within advance disclosure designs.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of ecosystem service valuation for marine planning is examined and lessons from the development and use of environmental valuation and cost-benefit analysis for policy-making in the US and the UK.