Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners /

This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners. Early chapters provide accessible introductory materials suitable for non-economists. These chapters also detail how benefit transfer...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Johnston, Robert J. (Editor), Rolfe, John (Editor), Rosenberger, Randall S. (Editor), Brouwer, Roy (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources, 14
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners. Early chapters provide accessible introductory materials suitable for non-economists. These chapters also detail how benefit transfer is used within the policy process. Later chapters cover more advanced topics suited to valuation researchers, graduate students, and those with similar knowledge of economic and statistical theory and methods. This book provides the most complete coverage of environmental benefit transfer methods available in a single location. The book targets a wide audience, including undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners in economics and other disciplines looking for a one-stop handbook covering benefit transfer topics, and those who wish to apply or evaluate benefit transfer methods. It is designed for those both with and without training in economics.
Physical Description:XXIII, 582 p. 44 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9789401799300
ISSN:1571-487X ;