Weak Comparability of Values as a Foundation for Ecological Economics

By J. Martínez-Alier, Giuseppe Munda, J. O’Neill. 1998

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3. Martina Artmann
4. U. Pascual
5. C. Spash
6. Nicolás Kosoy
7. R.W.J. de Groot
8. J. Spangenberg

Citations in the corpus

• A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation (2014, methodology): “This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com www.kva.se/en multiple variables, which are often characterized by limited comparability (Martinez-Alier 1998).”
• Precisely incorrect? Monetising the value of ecosystem services § (2010, background): “However, that the assumption of commensurability is counterfactual has long been discussed in the ecological economics literature (O’Neill, 1997a; Martinez-Alier et al., 1998; Spangenberg, 2005).”
• Valuing nature's contributions to people: the IPBES approach (2017, background): “Hence, it is critical to acknowledge that the diversity of values of nature and its contributions to people’s good quality of life are associated with different cultural and institutional contexts [4] and are hard to compare on the same yardstick [5,6].”