Abstract
Even without conducting new primary valuation studies, which may be costly, the valuation of nonmarket benefits of natural sites may be feasible using a benefit transfer approach. In the last decades, this approach to value estimation has been increasingly applied (and also discussed) all over the world.
Based on the results of several recent Czech recreation demand studies and also on the basis of other recent Czech and European scientific evidence, the contribution discusses specifically the benefit transfer of recreation values associated with natural areas in the Czech Republic. I shortly comment on the possibilites of benefit transfer in the context of recreation, further I summarize the available scientific evidence on recreation values attributable to Czech natural areas together with lessons learnt from the valuations, and I suggest several minimum standards for sound value transfers of recreation values to Czech natural sites.