A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation

by Patricia A. Champ (Editor), Kevin J. Boyle (Editor), Thomas C. Brown (Editor)

Overview

This book presents clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket valuation techniques and their implementation. Chapters are all laid out similarly with the steps to implementing each of the nonmarket valuation techniques.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789400771048
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	02/08/2017
Series:	The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources , #13
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	504
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

	List of Contributors	vii
	Preface	ix
1.	Economic Valuation: What and Why	1
2.	Conceptual Framework for Nonmarket Valuation	27
3.	Collecting Survey Data for Nonmarket Valuation	59
4.	Introduction to Stated Preference Methods	99
5.	Contingent Valuation in Practice	111
6.	Attribute-Based Methods	171
7.	Multiple Good Valuation	221
8.	Introduction to Revealed Preference Methods	259
9.	The Travel Cost Model	269
10.	The Hedonic Method	331
11.	Defensive Behavior and Damage Cost Methods	395
12.	Benefit Transfer	445
13.	Nonmarket Valuation in Action	483
14.	Where to from Here?	537
	Index	567