Bücher der Reihe The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources

This book provides practical, research-based advice on how to conduct high-quality stated choice studies. Chapters are written by top-notch academics and practitioners in an accessible style, offering practical, tough advice.

This book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity.

This book documents a contingent valuation study for a significant environmental good: preventing the likely injuries from oil spills on the coast of Central California.

This book provides practical, research-based advice on how to conduct high-quality stated choice studies. Chapters are written by top-notch academics and practitioners in an accessible style, offering practical, tough advice.

Indeed, as North America moves towards a more integrated economy, citizen action at the local level is pushing governments to adapt to the driving forces in the border area by creating new institutional arrangements and improving old ones.

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.

The chapters in the book cover a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between natural resource use and long-term economic development.

This work takes a fresh and contemporary look at the growing interest in the development and application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) within the field of health economics.

This volume offers a snapshot of the research that is ongoing in the area of value transfer. The volume includes papers by some of the most influential authors in the area and covers the latest developments in the field.

This book is about bounded rationality and public policy. The resulting book is laid out as follows: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the rest of the book, goes through some basic de?nitions and identi?es themes.

The final chapters of the book examine the relevance of experimentation to economic valuation, the transfer of existing nonmarket values to new settings, and assessments of the reliability and validity of nonmarket values. The book is relevant to individuals in many professions at all career levels.

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.

A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation is unique in its clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket valuation techniques and their implementation.

This book documents a contingent valuation study for a significant environmental good: preventing the likely injuries from oil spills on the coast of Central California.

Indeed, as North America moves towards a more integrated economy, citizen action at the local level is pushing governments to adapt to the driving forces in the border area by creating new institutional arrangements and improving old ones.

Environmental policy analysis is intended to present the environmental and social impacts of policies, in the hope that better decisions will result when people have better information on which to base those decisions. Policy analysis books almost invariably begin by pointing out that policy analysis can take many forms.

This book provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing the environment and natural resources that use information on what people do, not what they say. The authors have worked on models of revealed preferences for valuing environmental and natural resources for several decades.

Environmental policy analysis is intended to present the environmental and social impacts of policies, in the hope that better decisions will result when people have better information on which to base those decisions. Policy analysis books almost invariably begin by pointing out that policy analysis can take many forms.

The final chapters of the book examine the relevance of experimentation to economic valuation, the transfer of existing nonmarket values to new settings, and assessments of the reliability and validity of nonmarket values. The book is relevant to individuals in many professions at all career levels.

Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values

This volume offers a snapshot of the research that is ongoing in the area of value transfer. The volume includes papers by some of the most influential authors in the area and covers the latest developments in the field.