Valuing Rural Amenities

Economic valuation is widely used in OECD countries as a way of assessing the (usually monetary) value of goods that have no markets. In the rural context, valuation methods are used to argue for or against projects and policy choices in areas as diverse as agricultural support policies, local economic development, land use and biodiversity assessment. This volume reviews a range of different valuation methodologies -- stated preferences, cost-benefit, revealed preferences, and others -- and looks at how these different approaches influence choices in rural policy. Its aim is to assess whether

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Year of publication:	2001
Institutions:	OECD (contributor)
Publisher:	Paris : OECD Publishing
Subject:	Ländlicher Raum \| Rural area \| Theorie \| Theory \| Lebensqualität \| Evaluation
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (174 p.)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Foreword; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Boxes; Chapter 1. Introduction; Part 1. ASSESSING DEMAND AND DERIVING VALUE; Chapter 2. Valuation Techniques and Benefit Transfer Methods: Strengths, Weaknesses and Policy Utility; Chapter 3. Problems and Potential in Valuing Multiple Outputs: Externality and Public-Good Non-Commodity...; Chapter 4. Valuation by Whom, for Whom? Questions of Legitimacy; Part 2. THE SUPPLY SIDE: TRANSFORMING VALUES INTO REVENUES; Chapter 5. Current Policy Instruments: Rationale, Strengths and Weaknesses Chapter 6. Establishing Effective Incentives in Practice: the Role of Valuation and Influence of Other FactorsChapter 7. Rural Amenities and their Valuation: Wider Questions for Policy-Makers; Chapter 8. Contributions to the Concluding Round Table; Chapter 9. Conclusions; List of Principal Contributors;
ISBN:	978-92-64-18531-9 ; 978-92-64-19212-6 ; 978-92-64-19212-6
Other identifiers:	10.1787/9789264192126-en [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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