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The Contingent Valuation of Environmental Resources
Fifteen papers written by scholars examining the relative merits of contingent valuation analysis of environmental resources and suggesting a research agenda to improve estimates. Central to the discussions is how economic valuation is obtained through survey measurements, and how practitioners must address the need for a broad perspective in valuation research, support replications studies, define the relationship between survey structure and survey responses, and promote better internal and external validity testing. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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...
Emergency Food Delivery: A State-of-the-Art Assessment
The purpose of this report is to provide a critical literature review of the state-of-the-art in emergency food supply issues, to relate these issues and literature to the mission of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and to recommend areas where improved information and documents would allow FEMA to more effectively perform its mission. Four major topics are addressed: (1) the institutions which participate in emergency food delivery; (2) the factual dimensions of U.S. agriculture as they relate to emergency food delivery; (3) short-term emergency feeding issues; and (4) long-term emergency feeding issues. Several recommendations are developed which deal with the following: (1) FEMA should develop a more detailed working relationship with the Department of Agriculture (USDA); (2) FEMA should prepare better documentation of its own emergency feeding procedures and guidelines; (3) FEMA should test some previously developed options; (4) FEMA should evaluate several past studies to determine their current relevance; and (5) FEMA should undertake several new studies. Keywords: Emergency food delivery, Post disaster recovery, Emergency management, Food distribution.
What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?
What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology? presents diverse perspectives on biotechnology and nanotechnologies. Avoiding extreme perspectives, unwarranted hype and absolute rejection, this book explores the diverse territory of proponents and opponents of challenging but potentially risky technologies. Contributions from recognized experts in their fields represent the perspectives of a diverse range of stakeholders. This book details the lessons to be learned from the controversy over genetically modified foods, and how those lessons can be applied to developing nanotechnologies, particularly agricultural and other food-related applications. Exploring the environmental, social and ethical impact of nanotechnology in addition to the technical and economical impacts, it an ideal reference for any scientist, engineer, research program administrator, resource allocator, and NGO advocate. - Addresses the growing concern over the responsibility of science to the impacted population - Uses real-world experience to outline practical approaches for emerging technologies - Addresses the concerns of science as well as social science
Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities
A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect people and cultures. Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has a long history. Contemporary examples include the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, mosques in Xinjiang, mausoleums in Timbuktu, and Greco-Roman remains in Syria. Cultural heritage destruction invariably accompanies assaults on civilians, making heritage attacks impossible to disentangle from the mass atrocities of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Both seek to eliminate people and the heritage with which they identify. Cultural Heritage and Mass ...
Air Pollution
This report is concerned with the benefits and costs of installing sulfur dioxide controls at the Navajo Generating Station, which was thought to produce sulfur dioxide emissions that contributed to impaired visibility at the Grand Canyon. The report: determines the effect on emissions reductions and the assoc. costs that resulted from the negotiated agree. used by EPA in making its decision compared to its initial proposal; identifies the visibility improve. EPA estimated would result from the emissions controls and the means by which these improvements were determined; and determines how contingent valuation was used to estimate the monetary value of visibility improve.
