Methoden vergleichen

	Benefit Transfer Valuation	Water Footprint Analysis
Fachgebiet	Environmental Economics	Environmental Sociology
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2015	2011
Urheber	Robert J. Johnston, John Rolfe, Randall S. Rosenberger & Roy Brouwer	Arjen Y. Hoekstra (with Chapagain, Aldaya & Mekonnen)
Typ	Pipeline for transferring existing valuation estimates to new policy sites	Volumetric freshwater-appropriation accounting pipeline
Wegweisende Quelle	Johnston, R. J., Rolfe, J., Rosenberger, R. S., & Brouwer, R. (Eds.). (2015). Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values: A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners. Springer.	Hoekstra, A. Y., Chapagain, A. K., Aldaya, M. M., & Mekonnen, M. M. (2011). The Water Footprint Assessment Manual: Setting the Global Standard. Earthscan. ISBN: 9781849712798
Aliasnamen	Value Transfer, Benefits Transfer, Environmental Value Transfer, Function Transfer	Water Footprint Assessment, Blue-Green-Grey Water Accounting, Virtual Water Analysis, Hoekstra Water Footprint
Verwandt	3	3
Zusammenfassung	Benefit transfer is the practice of using economic value estimates from existing valuation studies to estimate the value of an environmental change at a new policy site where conducting a fresh primary study is not feasible. As systematized in Johnston, Rolfe, Rosenberger and Brouwer's 2015 guide, it ranges from simple unit-value transfer — borrowing a willingness-to-pay figure from a similar study — to function transfer, in which an estimated value function is applied using the characteristics of the new site and population, and meta-analytic transfer that pools many studies into a single predictive function. Because primary valuation through choice experiments or travel-cost studies is expensive and slow, benefit transfer is the workhorse of routine policy appraisal, allowing analysts to value ecosystem-service changes quickly while explicitly managing the error introduced by adapting evidence across contexts.	Water footprint analysis is a volumetric accounting method that measures the appropriation of freshwater used to produce the goods and services consumed by an individual, community, business, or nation. Formalized in Arjen Hoekstra's Water Footprint Assessment Manual of 2011, it decomposes water use into three components: the green water footprint (rainwater consumed, mainly through crop evapotranspiration), the blue water footprint (surface and groundwater consumed), and the grey water footprint (the volume of freshwater needed to dilute pollution to meet ambient quality standards). By tracing water through supply chains and aggregating these components, the method reveals how much and what kind of water lies behind products and consumption — including virtual water embedded in trade — and then assesses whether that appropriation is sustainable relative to local water availability and pollution-assimilation capacity.