"Accessible to students and practitioners without an advanced degree in environmental economics, this essential reference work pinpoints the role of the economy in both creating and solving many of the world's most pressing environmental challenges"--Résumé de l'éditeur.
"Accessible to students and practitioners without an advanced degree in environmental economics, this essential reference work pinpoints the role of the economy in both creating and solving many of the world's most pressing environmental challenges"--
1. Welfare economics for non-market valuation -- 2. Parametric models for contingent valuation -- 3. Distribution-free models for contingent valuation -- 4. The distribution of willingness to pay -- 5. Topics in discrete choice contingent valuation -- 6. Modeling the demand for …
Non-market valuation has become a broadly accepted and widely practised means of measuring the economic values of the environment and natural resources. This book provides a guide to the statistical and econometric practices that economists employ in estimating non-market values.