Applied environmental economics : a GIS approach to cost-benefit analysis / Ian J. Bateman, Andrew A. Lovett and Julii S. Brainard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bateman, Ian, author.

Lovett, Andrew A., author.

Brainard, Julii S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics.

Environmental economics--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The complex real-world interactions between the economy and the environment form both the focus of and main barrier to applied research within the field of environmental economics. However, geographical information systems (GIS) allow economists to tackle such complexity head on by directly incorporating diverse datasets into applied research rather than resorting to simplifying and often unrealistic assumptions. This innovative book applies GIS techniques to spatial cost-benefit analysis of a complex and topical land use change problem - the conversion of agricultural land to multipurpose woodland - looking in detail at issues such as opportunity costs, timber yield, recreation, carbon storage, etc., and embracing cost-cutting themes such as the evaluation of environmental preferences and the spatial transfer of benefit functions.

Contents:

Recreation: valuation methods

Recreation: predicting values

Recreation: predicting visits

Timber valuation

Modelling and mapping timber yield and value

Modelling and valuing carbon sequestration in trees, timber products and forest soils

Modelling opportunity cost: agricultural output values

Cost benefit analysis using GIS.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-331) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13191-X

1-280-16096-9

1-139-14760-9

0-511-11999-2

0-511-06409-8

0-511-05776-8

0-511-32266-6

0-511-49346-0

0-511-07255-4

OCLC:

559175663