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Contingent Valuation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Contingent Valuation

This major reference work the first of its kind provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation. It includes entries on over 7,500 contingent valuation papers and studies from over 130 countries covering both the published and grey literatures. This book provides an interpretive historical account of the development of contingent valuation, the most commonly used approach to placing a value on goods not normally sold in the marketplace. The major fields catalogued here include culture, the environment, and health application. This bibliography is an ideal starting point for researchers wanting to find other studies that have...

Applications of the Contingent Valuation Method in Developing Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 76

Applications of the Contingent Valuation Method in Developing Countries

Agriculture, in addition to producing food, hides and fibre, also provides many other goods and services not priced in the market. These include environmental outputs such as rural amenities and disamenities, but also social and cultural functions. The economic value of these non-market goods and services of agriculture can be assessed by estimating how much purchasing power people would be willing to give up to acquire those outputs if they were forced to make a choice. The contingent valuation method (CVM) is one of the most widely used methodologies developed for the measurement of the value of non-market goods.

Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics

Simulation methods are revolutionizing the practice of applied economic analysis. In this book, leading researchers from around the world discuss interpretation issues, similarities and differences across alternative models, and propose practical solutions for the choice of the model and programming. Case studies show the practical use and the results brought forth by the different methods.

Handbook on Contingent Valuation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Handbook on Contingent Valuation

The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn have compiled a comprehensive and original reference volume containing invaluable case studies that demonstrate the implementation of contingent valuation in a wide variety of applications. Chapters include those on the history of contingent valuation, a practical guide to its implementation, the use of experimental approaches, an ecological economics perspective on contingent valuation and approache...

Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport Policies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport Policies

The book presents a major meta-analysis of 'value of a statistical life' (VSL) estimates derived from surveys where people around the world have been asked about their willingness to pay for small reduction in mortality risks.

Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children

This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new findings on whether the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults.

Exploring Health and Environmental Costs of Food
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 117

Exploring Health and Environmental Costs of Food

The U.S. food system provides many benefits, not the least of which is a safe, nutritious and consistent food supply. However, the same system also creates significant environmental, public health, and other costs that generally are not recognized and not accounted for in the retail price of food. These include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil erosion, air pollution, and their environmental consequences, the transfer of antibiotic resistance from food animals to human, and other human health outcomes, including foodborne illnesses and chronic disease. Some external costs which are also known as externalities are accounted for in ways that do not involve increasing the price of food. But ...

Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children

This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new findings on whether the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults.

Voluntary Cleanup Programs and Redevelopment Potential: Lessons from Baltimore, Maryland: A Reprint From ¿Cityscape
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 30

Voluntary Cleanup Programs and Redevelopment Potential: Lessons from Baltimore, Maryland: A Reprint From ¿Cityscape

In the U.S., policy has increasingly shifted toward economic incentives and liability attenuation for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, but little is known about the effectiveness of such policies. These policies include state Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs). This study focuses on 116 Baltimore properties that were enrolled and participated in the Maryland VCP from its inception in 1997 to the end of 2006 and examines what type of properties tend to participate in these programs, how these properties compare with other eligible but non-participating sites, and what the redevelopment potential of VCP properties and implications is toward open-space conversion. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management

RFF University Fellow Wallace Oates has assembled much of RFF's best work in a new volume that provides teachers and students, the public policy community, and informed readers with a broader, deeper perspective on natural resources and the environment. This treasure trove of balanced and authoritative analysis belongs on the bookshelf of any individual or institution concerned about environmental policy.