Handbook On Contingent Valuation (Elgar Original Reference)



The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn have compiled a comprehensive and original reference volume containing invaluable case studies that demonstrate the implementation of contingent valuation in a wide variety of applications. Chapters include those on the history of contingent valuation, a practical guide to its implementation, the use of experimental approaches, an ecological economics perspective on contingent valuation and approaches for developing nations.
Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
PART I CONTINGENT VALUATION AND ECONOMIC THEORY......Page 16
2 Fifty years of contingent valuation......Page 18
3 A practitioner’s primer on the contingent valuation method......Page 77
4 The use of contingent valuation in benefit–cost analysis......Page 103
5 Hypothetical preferences and environmental policy......Page 127
6 Protest bids, commensurability, and substitution: contingent valuation and ecological economics......Page 144
PART II ECONOMETRIC AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES IN CONTINGENT VALUATION......Page 162
7 An introduction to choice modeling for non-market valuation......Page 164
8 Experimental methods for the testing and design of contingent valuation......Page 188
9 Designing a contingent valuation study to estimate the benefits of the conservation reserve program on grassland bird populations......Page 215
10 Modelling behaviour in dichotomous choice with Bayesian methods......Page 243
11 Temporal reliability in contingent valuation (with a restrictive research budget)......Page 260
PART III APPLICATIONS......Page 274
12 Non-market valuation on the internet......Page 276
13 Use of contingent values of wildlife and habitat preservation in policy and benefit–cost analyses......Page 303
14 Valuing wildlife at risk from exotic invaders in Yellowstone Lake......Page 318
15 The demand for insecticide-treated mosquito nets: evidence from Africa......Page 335
16 Choice modeling of farmer preferences for agroforestry systems in Calakmul, Mexico......Page 351
17 The use of contingent valuation in developing countries: a quantitative analysis......Page 365
18 Combining stated-choice and stated-frequency data with observed behavior to value NRDA compensable damages: Green Bay, PCBs, and Fish Consumption Advisories......Page 382
19 Public preferences toward environmental risks: the case of trihalomethanes......Page 405
20 Conclusions......Page 432
Index......Page 438