Objetivo 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. Ámbito científico engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology Programa(s) FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998 Tema(s) 04 - Human dimensions of environmental change Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinador UNIVERSITE DE VERSAILLES SAINT QUENTIN EN YVELINE Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección 47,Boulevard Vauban 47, Collège Vauban 78047 GUYANCOURT Francia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Participantes (4) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo European Communities - Commission of the European Communities Italia Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Via E. Fermi 21020 Ispra - Varese Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Trinity Lane, The Old Schools, CB2 1TN CAMBRIDGE Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER Reino Unido Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Bailrigg, Lonsdale College, Bowland Tower East LA1 4YW LANCASTER Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos Universidad de La Laguna España Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección S/N,Camino de la Hornera 38071 La Laguna Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos
