Project description
Tools to assess the spatial dimensions of public values of biodiversity policies
Biodiversity policy provides multiple benefits, but also imposes costs on society. Assessing these trade-offs is challenging, because the benefits are difficult to estimate and vary across locations. Understanding which policies can generate the greatest ecological and socio-economic benefits and how these benefits are distributed across space is key to spatially target interventions and to design incentives and compensation mechanisms. The EU-funded SVAB project will develop spatial non-market valuation methods and sampling techniques to provide insight into the effects of spatial factors on public preferences for policy changes. Researchers will assess the non-market values associated with biodiversity policies, such as nature restoration and protection.
Objective
Biodiversity policy is a fundamental component for sustainable development and actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. For efficient and effective policy implementation it is crucial to understand where policy interventions can generate greatest ecological and socio-economic benefits. However, accurate spatial information about public good values of biodiversity is missing. The Spatial non-market VAluation for Biodiversity (SVAB) project aims to address this gap through four objectives. It will: 1) develop a novel spatially explicit survey valuation methodology to improve the accuracy of non-market valuation of biodiversity; 2) develop a spatial sampling methodology to improve the efficiency of sampling in spatial valuation surveys; 3) use these methodologies to assess the non-market values associated with nature restoration and extension of the nature protected areas network (Natura 2000) in the Czech Republic; 4) engage with policy-makers and citizens to enhance the relevance of the methods and outcomes and inform decision making in policy and public spheres. SVAB will develop an individualised choice maps approach for stated preference research that enables testing the impacts of a wide set of spatial factors on public preferences for policy changes, test a spatial sampling strategy that will decrease survey costs in valuation and broader research, and improve the reliability of biodiversity valuation to inform spatial targeting of biodiversity policy. SVAB will enable the applicant to innovate spatial non-market valuation methods, develop new analytical and transferable skills, create new knowledge on societal benefits of nature, and publish the excellent research in leading journals in order to become an independent researcher. The project is highly interdisciplinary, combining economic and econometric methods, spatial analysis approaches, and biodiversity and ecosystem sciences.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2020
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1081 HV Amsterdam
Netherlands
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