How does rewilding affect the value of natural areas in economic terms?
How does rewilding affect recreation and the value people get from being in nature?
In this Green Shoots webinar, Tim de Kruiff and Jette Bredahl Jacobsen discussed the impacts rewilding can have on recreation and nature value.
Using their own work from Denmark and presenting insights from the field of environmental valuation in general, Tim and Jette took us on an economic journey through rewilding. In their work, they look at the potential impacts of rewilding and nature management on the recreational and broader societal value of natural areas.
The wildE consortium brings together researchers from many different academic fields. In the next few webinars, we’ll be departing from the field of ecology and moving towards economics and social sciences. Where does rewilding fit into these fields? What sorts of issues do they deal with?
The webinar is now available to watch on YouTube.
About the speakers
Tim de Kruiff is a PhD-student at the department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen. His research primarily focuses on the valuation of rewilding benefits. He looks at the impact of different possible choices in management of natural areas, and how this affects people’s willingness to pay for nature. Working closely together with the ecologists, ethicists and sociologists in the consortium, his research aims to build an understanding of people’s preferences and trade-offs in relation to rewilding.
Jette Bredahl Jacobsen is a professor in environmental and resource economics at the department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen. She teaches and does research on a broad range of topics within this field, in particular environmental valuation, forest economics, climate economics. In particular, she looks at the valuation of non-use values (e.g. biodiversity) and decision making where risk and uncertainty plays a central role. She is the current vice chair for the European Advisory Board for Climate Change and a special advisor in the Danish Environmental Economic Council.
