Economic valuation with stated preference techniques : a manual

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bateman, Ian, Contributor.

Great Britain Department for Transport., Content Provider.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Environmental economics.

Environmental auditing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Environmental auditing.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 458 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 that is not sold through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments not provided privately; provision of information as with the recorded heritage, the protection of cultural assets and so on. The resulting valuations can be used for a number of purposes including, but not limited to, demonstrating the importance of a good or service; cost-benefit analysis; setting priorities for environmental policy; design of economic instruments; green national/corporate accounting, and natural resource damage assessment.

Contents:

1. The foundations of economic valuation

2. commissioning a stated preference study

3. Population, sample and survey mode

4. designing a contingent valuation questionnaire

5. Contingent valuation : analysing the results

6. designing a choice modelling questionnaire

7. Choice modelling : analysing the results

8. Validity and reliability

9. Aggregation

10. Reporting

11. Combining revealed and stated preference techniques

12. Cautions, caveats and future directions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-433) and index.

ISBN:

1-78100-972-4