书目名称 | Environmental Resource Valuation |
副标题 | Applications of the |
编辑 | Richard C. Bishop,Donato Romano |
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丛书名称 | Studies in Risk and Uncertainty |
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描述 | Economic values are increasingly used in policy analysis andlegal settings. With the growing recognition that many of the thingsthat benefit or harm people are outside the market system, have comeincreasing efforts to develop nonmarket valuation techniques. One suchtechnique is the contingent valuation method (CVM). CVM seeks to valueenvironmental and other nonmarket goods and services by askingindividuals about their values using survey methods. These proceduresare different from the `revealed-preference‘ methods that economistshave historically employed to estimate economic values. .Why depart from well-established revealed-preference procedures andapply a `stated-preference‘ method like CVM? For nonmarket goods andservices, revealed-preference methods have two shortcomings that thoseapplying CVM hope to avoid. First, revealed-preference methods involveeconometric problems that have yet to be fully overcome. The secondshortcoming of revealed-preference methods is that such methods, whenapplied to environmental amenities, are likely to be only partialmeasures of value. .Given the tremendous interest that exists in economic values and thelimitations of revealed-preference methods, |
出版日期 | Book 1998 |
关键词 | Conservation; Italy; consumer; econometrics; environment; evaluation; information; modeling; research; scienc |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5741-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-7630-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-5741-8Series ISSN 0926-972X |
issn_series | 0926-972X |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998 |