@article{Rogers:156197,
      recid = {156197},
      author = {Rogers, A. and Kragt, Marit Ellen and Gibson, F. and  Pannell, David J. and Burton, Michael P. and Petersen, L.},
      title = {Is non-market valuation used in environmental
policy  making?},
      address = {2013-09-02},
      number = {1784-2016-141881},
      series = {Working Paper},
      pages = {23},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2013},
      note = {This paper has been published in a peer-reviewed journal  as:
Rogers, A., Kragt, M.E., Gibson, F., Pannell, D.J.,  Burton, M. & Petersen, L. (2015) Non-market valuation:  usage and impacts in environmental policy and management in  Australia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource  Economics, 59(1): 1-15.  DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12031},
      abstract = {A vast literature exists on environmental non-market  valuation research. It appears that results from these  studies should be useful inputs to decision making about  environmental policy or management. Here, we investigate  the extent to which this occurs in practice in Australian  environmental management bodies. Non-market valuation  experts were surveyed about their studies that they  believed to have influenced policy. Then, decision makers  in environmental bodies were interviewed about the level of  influence non-market valuation has had on their decisions.  We find that researchers’ perceptions of the influence that  non-market valuation has on decision making are overly  optimistic. Interviews with decision makers suggest that  non-market valuation is little used in decision making.  Indeed, the majority of them are unfamiliar with non-market  valuation techniques. Nevertheless, once the concept was  explained to them, many decision makers believed it could  benefit environmental policy. Researchers’ perceptions of  the reasons for low usage of non-market valuation are  largely inaccurate. We suggest a range of strategies that  economists can use to promote the use of non-market  valuation in environmental policy and management decisions,  including ways to improve communication and engagement with  decision makers, and strategies to increase the capacity  for decision makers to use non-market valuation results.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156197},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.156197},
}