Handbook on Contingent Valuation (Elgar Original Reference) - Softcover

9781848448902: Handbook on Contingent Valuation (Elgar Original Reference)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848448902 ISBN 13: 9781848448902

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009

The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn have compiled a comprehensive and original reference volume containing invaluable case studies that demonstrate the implementation of contingent valuation in a wide variety of applications. Chapters include those on the history of contingent valuation, a practical guide to its implementation, the use of experimental approaches, an ecological economics perspective on contingent valuation and approaches for developing nations.

The handbook also contains:
* discussions of underlying theory
* both contingent valuation and conjoint analysis
* comparisons of real and hypothetical data using experimental approaches
* an examination of survey structure issues
* developing country focus
* critical essays concerning the ethical basis of contingent valuation.

This new reference book will be warmly welcomed by academics in environmental economics, environmental professionals in government, consulting firms and NGOs. Graduate and undergraduate students in economics, environmental studies and environmental policy will also find this an ever valuable resource.

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About the Author:

Edited by Anna Alberini, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, US and James R. Kahn, John F. Hendon Professor of Economics and Director of Environmental Studies, Washington and Lee University, US and Collaborating Professor, Centro de Ci�ncias do Ambiente, Universidade Federal do Amazonas , Brazil

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