Biodiversity policy is always about places: where habitat is restored, where management changes, and where new biodiversity-supporting areas are created. But public support for these actions can also be spatial—shaped by where people live, what nature they have around them, and the spatial configuration of proposed interventions (for example, how far away they are).
A new open-access paper in Resource and Energy Economics introduces and tests a novel, national-scale, spatially explicit stated choice experiment designed to capture this reality by letting respondents evaluate real locations across the Czech Republic. The article is part of special issue REE / JEEM Workshop on Nonmarket Valuation.
