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Benefit transfer of environmental and resource values : a guide for researchers and practitioners /

This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners. Early chapters provide accessible introductory materials suitable for non-economists. These chapters also detail how benefit transfer...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnston, Robert J. (Editor ), Rolfe, John (Editor ), Rosenberger, Randall S. (Editor ), Brouwer, Roy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer, [2015]
Colección:Economics of non-market goods and resources ; v. 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section 1: Introduction and Policy Perspectives
  • Introduction: Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values
  • Introduction to Benefit Transfer Methods
  • The Use of Benefit Transfer in the United States
  • The Use and Development of Benefit Transfer in Europe
  • Applied Benefit Transfer: An Australian and New Zealand Policy Perspective
  • Benefit Transfer for Water Quality Regulatory Rulemaking in the United States
  • Section 2: Methods and Applications
  • Benefit Transfers with the Contingent Valuation Method
  • Applying Benefit Transfer with Limited Data: Unit Value Transfers in Practice
  • Benefit Transfer Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data
  • Benefit Transfers: Insights from Choice Experiments
  • Frontiers in Modeling Discrete Choice Experiments: A Benefit Transfer Perspective
  • Benefit Transfer for Ecosystem Service Valuation: An Introduction to Theory
  • Ecosystem Services Assessment and Benefit Transfer.-Benefit Transfer Validity and Reliability
  • Section 3: Meta-Analysis
  • Meta-analysis: Statistical Methods
  • Meta-analysis: Rationale, Issues and Applications
  • Meta-analysis: Econometric Advances and New Perspectives toward Data Synthesis and Robustness
  • Section 4: Spatial and Geographical Considerations
  • Spatial and Geographical Aspects of Benefit Transfer
  • Reliability of Meta-analytic Benefit Transfers of International Value of Statistical Life Estimates: Tests and Illustrations
  • GIS-Based Mapping of Ecosystem Services: The Case of Coral Reefs
  • Section 5. Bayesian Methods
  • A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach to the Transfer of Subjective Well-Being Values of Air Quality
  • Optimal Scope and Bayesian Model Search in Benefit Transfer
  • Structural Benefits Transfer using Bayesian Econometrics
  • Section 6. Status and Prospects.-Benefit Transfer: The Present State and Future Prospects.