Objective To analyse the social processes relevant to environmental valuation.OBJECTIVE: To analyse the social processes relevant to environmental valuation. DESCRIPTION: Through four empirical studies, the project will seek to design and demonstrate effective procedures for eliciting environmental valuation statements for conservation and sustainability policy, and to resolve the ensuing conflicts, with lessons drawn from policy making generally. The project consists of four phases. i) The translation of general principles for effective environmental valuation procedures established from previous empirical and theoretical research and discussion, into a range of working hypotheses about key physical, institutional, and ethical factors in the social construction of environmental values. ii) The establishment of detailed research design and valuation practices for the specific features of each case study: a) France: Social, ecological and economic valuation of forest pockets within farmland; b) Spain: Irreversibilities in water quality and quantity management; c) Italy: Multiple criteria decision support analysis for water resources in Sicily; d) United Kingdom: Motorway and waste disposal encroachments on "natural" habitats. Each case-study has the following components: preliminary scoping analysis; detailed field research methodology and design; interviews with key social actors and people in the interested communities; the elaboration of a procedure which brings these social actors' views and preferences into environmental decision making. iii) The translation of case study experience to environmental policy and public expenditure programme design. iv) The results will be communicated to policy makers, researchers, and the interested public through workshops and symposia and a set of supporting documents. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology Programme(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 04 - Human dimensions of environmental change Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITE DE VERSAILLES SAINT QUENTIN EN YVELINE EU contribution No data Address 47,Boulevard Vauban 47, Collège Vauban 78047 GUYANCOURT France See on map Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all European Communities - Commission of the European Communities Italy EU contribution No data Address Via E. Fermi 21020 Ispra - Varese See on map Total cost No data THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Trinity Lane, The Old Schools, CB2 1TN CAMBRIDGE See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Bailrigg, Lonsdale College, Bowland Tower East LA1 4YW LANCASTER See on map Total cost No data Universidad de La Laguna Spain EU contribution No data Address S/N,Camino de la Hornera 38071 La Laguna See on map Total cost No data