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‘I didn’t count “willingness to pay†as part of the value’: Monetary valuation through respondents’ perspectives

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  • Lina Isacs

    (Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala
    Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)

  • Cecilia HÃ¥kansson

    (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Therese Lindahl

    (The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden
    Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling

    (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden)

  • Pernilla Andersson

    (Uppsala University, Department of Education, Uppsala, Sweden)

Abstract

A frequent justification in the literature for using stated preference methods (SP) is that they are the only methods that can capture the so-called total economic value (TEV) of environmental changes to society. Based on follow-up interviews with SP survey respondents, this paper addresses the implications of that argument by shedding light on the construction of TEV, through respondents’ perspective. It illuminates the deficiencies of willingness to pay (WTP) as a measure of value presented as three aggregated themes considering respondents’ unintentionality, their retraction once they understood that their WTP could be decisive in cost-benefit analysis and the inherent incompleteness of WTP. We discuss why the TEV discourse persists, how it conceals rather than reveals broader notions of value and in what ways our results support the development of alternative approaches that truly endorse plurality in environmental valuation and decision-making.

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  • Lina Isacs & Cecilia HÃ¥kansson & Therese Lindahl & Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling & Pernilla Andersson, 2024. "‘I didn’t count “willingness to pay†as part of the value’: Monetary valuation through respondents’ perspectives," Environmental Values, , vol. 33(2), pages 163-188, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:33:y:2024:i:2:p:163-188
    DOI: 10.1177/09632719241231509
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