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This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relevant for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; health care...
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. This new book offers a rigorous state-of-the-art evaluation of the theoretical and statistical issues central to the …
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Making the Environment Count brings together, in one accessible volume, an outstanding selection of Alan Randall …'s essays published over the past 30 years. It explores ideas on making the environment count from a conceptual perspective and … of empirical methods of valuing the environment By improving access to Alan Randall's many important contributions, this …
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environment and natural resources. In this book, the authors provide a guide to the statistical and econometric practices that …
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Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, with contributions covering both basic and advanced...
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1. Currents of environmentalism -- 2. Ecological economics : "taking nature into account" -- 3. Indices of (un) sustainability, and neo-Malthusianism -- 4. Political ecology : the study of ecological distribution conflicts -- 5. Mangroves versus shrimps -- 6. The environmentalism of the poor :...
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Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Economics for the environment : a primer -- International environmental …
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Introduction -- Need for public consultation and stated preference -- Stated preference : methods and challenges -- Qualitative methods -- Interpreting stated preference responses -- Investigating sensitivity to scope -- Constructing better preferences? -- Communal nature of stated preference --...
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This book explores frontier work at the intersection of experimental and environmental economics, with cutting edge research provided by premier scholars in the field. The book begins by focusing on improving benefit-cost analysis, which remains the hallmark of public policy decision-making...
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The transfer study, a technique used in cost-benefit analysis, is an increasingly important tool used by government agencies to assess environmental regulatory policy. This innovative book develops protocols for using the transfer method to approach environmental problems and introduces several...
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