The past few years have seen a highly charged debate about whether contingent valuation (CV) surveys can provide valid economic measures of people's values for environmental resources. In an effort to appraise the validity of CV measures of economic value, a distinguished panel of social...

A proposed plan to preserve beach and beach access along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore through beach re-nourishment offers the opportunity to apply contingent valuation techniques to explore the implications of three sources of preference heterogeneity for measures of people's willingness...

In 1992 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) convened a panel of prominent social scientists to assess the reliability of natural resource damage estimates derived from contingent valuation (CV). The product of the panel's deliberations was a report that laid out a set of...

This paper reports the first attempt to measure the importance of controlling marine debris as an aesthetic characteristic of coastal areas. The results are based on contingent valuation estimates of the economic values people would place on controlling marine debris on recreational beaches. A...