{"id":973,"date":"2026-02-11T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/?post_type=project&#038;p=973"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:24:20","slug":"72-economic-benefit-value-transfer","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/project\/72-economic-benefit-value-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"72 &#8211; Economic &#8211; Benefit-value transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-51px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=&#8221;850&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; border_width_all=&#8221;4px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_tabs _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_tab title=&#8221;Tools details&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span>Category: <\/span><\/strong><span>Economical<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Subcategory: <\/span><\/strong><span>Economic valuation of ecosystem services; Valuation of environmental goods &amp; societal benefits<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Tool Type\u00a0: <\/span><\/strong><span>Modeling approaches-Econometric model<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Input data:<\/span><\/strong><span> primary data may be obtained from studies performed by the analyst, but usually, this hypothetical set is not wide or rich enough to do benefit transfer. If this is the case, some databases (EVRI, ESVD\u2026) can be accessed to retrieve information from primary studies and run the benefit transfer technique.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Output: <\/span><\/strong><span>usually, <\/span>willingness to pay (WTP) for a change in an environmental attribute or a scenario, but this depends on the available data for the original sites.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Target users: <\/span><\/strong><span>Researchers \/ Trained practitioners<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Location tested:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Level of uncertainty: <\/span><\/strong><span>depending on the quality and homogeneity of primary studies, as well as the similarity between the primary sites and the target site<strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=&#8221;Technical details&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span>Version:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Publication:<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Rights:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Difficulty level of implementation: <\/span><\/strong><span>Complex<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Skill required (for method use): <\/span><\/strong><span>knowledge of value factors, statistical skills<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=&#8221;Developer information&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span>Authors: <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Tool contributors:<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Project general coordinator: <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Project Scientific manager:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Project manager:\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=&#8221;Citation&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johnston, R. J., Boyle, K. J., Loureiro, M. L., Navrud, S., and Rolfe, J. (2021). Guidance to enhance the validity and credibility of environmental benefit transfers. Environmental and Resource Economics, 79(3), 575-624.<\/li>\n<li>Johnston, R. J., Rolfe, J., and Zawojska, E. (2018). Benefit transfer of environmental and resource values: progress, prospects and challenges. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 12(2-3), 177-266.<\/li>\n<li>Loomis, J. B. and Rosenberger, R. S. (2006). Reducing barriers in future benefit transfers: needed improvements in primary study design and reporting. Ecological Economics, 60: 343-350.<\/li>\n<li>Rolfe, J., Johnston, R. J., Rosenberger, R. S., and Brouwer, R. (2015). Introduction: Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values. In Johnston, R. J., Rolfe, J., Rosenberger, R. S., and Brouwer, R. (eds.). Benefit transfer of environmental and resource values: A guide for researchers and practitioners. Springer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][et_pb_tab title=&#8221;Contact&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span>Name:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>Fernando Rodr\u00edguez<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Organization: <\/span><\/strong><span>University of Salamanca<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span>Email: <\/span><\/strong><span>frodriguez@usal.es<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_tab][\/et_pb_tabs][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/72_GuideBenefitTransfer.pdf&#8221; button_text=&#8221;Tool Guide &#8211; Benefit Transfer&#8221; button_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; button_bg_color=&#8221;#143F6C&#8221; button_border_width=&#8221;0px&#8221; button_border_radius=&#8221;30px&#8221; button_icon=&#8221;&#xe092;||divi||400&#8243; button_icon_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; button_on_hover=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Benefit Transfer &#8211; BT<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span>Benefit transfer or, more generally, value transfer, is not actually a valuation method. Rather, it is a set of techniques to estimate the economic value of non-market ecosystem services at a target site (the \u201cpolicy site\u201d, or site i) when an original valuation study is not feasible due to constraints. In such situations, benefit transfer techniques can be applied to transfer welfare measures for environmental resources, such as willingness to pay (WTP) estimates, from original valuation studies (\u201cprimary studies\u201d) previously performed at other sites (the \u201cstudy sites\u201d, or sites j). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Benefit transfer is based on desk analysis of primary studies, allowing the avoidance of field study, so its main advantages come in the form of time and budget saving. The main disadvantage, as expected, is the higher likelihood and size of valuation errors, due to the inherent uncertainty in dealing with the differences between the study and the policy sites. In an ideal scenario, the policy site <em>i<\/em> and the study site <em>j<\/em> are well characterized and are known to be extremely similar in type, quality, extension, and condition, as well as socio-economic context, making the transfer of values a simple task. However, real scenarios hardly ever are so simple, requiring the application of more-or-less complex estimation methods. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Naturally, the quality of the output of benefit transfer techniques cannot be better than the quality of the input data, no matter the fanciness or precision of the applied transfer techniques. Note that even in the cases of poor data quality it might be a good idea to perform a simple benefit transfer analysis, at least as a screening test to assess the need of collecting primary data or carrying out an original valuation study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span>Availability \/ URL:<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Related Tools:<\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||5px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tool is a set of techniques to estimate the economic value of non-market ecosystem services at a target site when an original valuation study is not feasible due to constraints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,54,60,108,103,98,88,70,37,55,39,52,41,61,89,57,90,50,62,46,53,76,47,58,66,86,106],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-973","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-generating-understanding-data","category-researchers","category-spatial-data","category-quantitative-analytical","category-cultural-representations","category-environmental-data-variables","category-physical","category-modeling-approaches","category-main-category","category-practitioners","category-economical","category-decision-making","category-subtopic","category-online-databases","category-economical-input","category-policy-advisors-makers","category-societal-input","category-purpose","category-literature","category-economic-valuation-of-ecosystem-services","category-target-user","category-econometric-model","category-valuation-of-environmental-goods-societal-benefits","category-data-type","category-tool-type","category-input","category-output"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/973\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marbefes.lifewatch.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}