Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Review of Methods for Value Transfer......Page 12
Benefit and Informational Transfers......Page 22
Correspondence and Convergence in Benefit Transfer Accuracy: Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature......Page 34
Transferring Landscape Values: How And How Accurately?......Page 55
Morbidity Value Transfer......Page 86
Uncertainty, Benefit Transfers and Physical Models: A Middle Rio Grande Valley Focus......Page 98
Estimating the Economic Value of Improvements in River Ecology Using Choice Experiments: An application to the water framework directive......Page 119
Contrasting conventional with multi-level modeling approaches to meta-analysis: Expectation consistency in UK woodland recreation values......Page 139
Benefit Transfer Using Meta-Analysis In Recreation Economic Valuation......Page 169
Benefit Value Transfers Conditional On Site Attributes: Some Evidence Of Reliability From Forest Recreation In Ireland......Page 186
Can use and Non-use Values Be Transferred Across Countries?......Page 213
The Application of Bayesian Methodsin Benefit Transfer......Page 232
Improving the Practice of Benefits Transfer: A Preference Calibration Approach......Page 245
How Much Is Enough? The Value Of Information From Benefit Transfers In A Policy Context......Page 265
Lessons Learned for Environmental Value Transfer......Page 287