Handbook on Contingent Valuation (Elgar Original Reference)

By James R. Kahn and Anna Alberini

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840642084
• ISBN13: 9781840642087
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"