This open access book offers up-to-date advice and practical guidance on how to undertake a discrete choice experiment as a tool for environmental valuation. It discusses crucial issues in designing, implementing and analysing choice experiments. Compiled by leading experts in the field, the...

Cost-benefit analyses are commonly applied to assess the net welfare effects of policies to improve surface water quality. These analyses often disregard the biophysical fact that from implementation of policy measures to resulting improvements on water quality there will typically be...

With international commitments to reduce CO2 emissions by 50-70% by 2030 and 100% by 2050-2070, the search for cost-efficient tools continues. CO2 taxes are theoretically efficient and simple, but they face public resistance. Renewable energy sources like wind power can substitute CO2 taxes, but...

Theoretical Background -- Developing the Questionnaire -- Experimental Design -- Collecting the Data -- Econometric Modelling: Basics -- Econometric Modelling: Extensions -- Calculating Marginal and Non-Marginal Welfare Measures -- Validity and Reliability -- Software.