Contains:
front cover; copyright; front matter; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Dedication; Preface to the Handbook; table of contents; body; 12 Welfare Theory and Valuation; 13 Environment, Uncertainty, and Option Values; 14 Valuing the Environment as a Factor of Production; 15 Recreation Demand Models; 16 Property Value Models; 17 Contingent Valuation; 18 Cognitive Processes in Stated Preference Methods; 19 Experimental Methods and Valuation; 20 Quantifying and Valuing Environmental Health Risks; index; Author Index; Subject Index; back matter; Handbooks in Economics
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Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Print version record
Description:
Much applied environmental economics is concerned with the valuation of changes in environmental quality. Obtaining reliable valuation estimates requires attention to theoretical and econometric issues that are often quite subtle. Volume 2 of the Handbook of Environmental Economics presents both the theory and the practice of environmental valuation. It synthesizes the vast literature that has accumulated since the publication of the Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics two decades ago. It includes chapters on individual valuation methods written by researchers responsible for