The Environmental Protection Agency is accepting applications for grants to support the development of models and methods to estimate the economic value of changes in the environment. The two areas of ...

A UC Santa Barbara-led team has developed a systematic map of methods to assess the societal benefits of Earth science information, moving beyond purely monetary valuations. Their study in PNAS ...

A UC Santa Barbara-led study calls for new methods to assess the societal benefits of Earth science information beyond traditional monetary measures. Researchers argue that intangible values like ...

While you can establish the value of many goods by offering them for sale, the contingent valuation method represents another method of establishing value. This method is especially useful for ...