Author : Maureen L. Cropper
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : 9781858987378
This collection of Maureen Cropper's essays brings together methods for valuing environmental benefits. It particularly focuses on health benefits, as well as analyses of the benfits implicitly attached to human health and ecosystems by environmental regulations.
Author : Bengt Steen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0429772351
The book is meant to improve our understanding of sustainable development of production and consumption. Monetary values of the impact of emission and resources are determined, and used in environmental management, with a focus on sustainability. Values related to cultural context are not possible to predict, therefore ignored. The book only focuses on environmental goods and services that are used to satisfy basic human needs. One of the benefits of monetary valuation is its holistic approach. The impact of any contributing factor on the total value, can be determined, and the sensitivity to uncertainty in inputs can be estimated. This is useful in developing knowledge, where it is most needed. In a society, there are many economic units which need to function in tandem to support human welfare. Each unit has its own system boundary in what it includes and covers in time and space. The system boundary of a sustainable unit is likely to be very long and wide. This book provides data on long term monetary values of environmental impacts from human activities. It discusses the choice of system boundaries, and how to use monetary values in sustainable development. A large part of the book describes impact models in terms of the relation between emissions and natural goods and services.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2005-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 030909318X
Nutrient recycling, habitat for plants and animals, flood control, and water supply are among the many beneficial services provided by aquatic ecosystems. In making decisions about human activities, such as draining a wetland for a housing development, it is essential to consider both the value of the development and the value of the ecosystem services that could be lost. Despite a growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services, their value is often overlooked in environmental decision-making. This report identifies methods for assigning economic value to ecosystem servicesâ€"even intangible onesâ€"and calls for greater collaboration between ecologists and economists in such efforts.
Author : Ståle Navrud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 140205405X
This volume offers a snapshot of the research that is ongoing in the area of value transfer. It provides relevant input for increasing the quality of cost-benefit analyses of projects with environmental and health impacts. The volume includes papers by some of the most influential authors in the area and covers the latest developments in the field.
Author : Robert J. Johnston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 940179930X
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
Author : Bengt Kriström
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Economic development
ISBN :
Author : Timothy C. Haab
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843765438
Non-market valuation has become a broadly accepted and widely practiced means of measuring the economic values of the environment and natural resources. In this book, the authors provide a guide to the statistical and econometric practices that economists employ in estimating non-market values. The authors develop the econometric models that underlie the basic methods: contingent valuation, travel cost models, random utility models and hedonic models. They analyze the measurement of non-market values as a procedure with two steps: the estimation of parameters of demand and preference functions and the calculation of benefits from the estimated models. Each of the models is carefully developed from the preference function to the behavioral or response function that researchers observe. The models are then illustrated with datasets that characterize the kinds of data researchers typically deal with. The real world data and clarity of writing in this book will appeal to environmental economists, students, researchers and practitioners in multilateral banks and government agencies.
Author : Jakobsen, Siri
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1800373090
The transition to a circular economy requires innovation at all levels of society. This insightful Research Handbook is the first comprehensive edited work examining how innovation can contribute to a more circular economy.
Author : Nancy E. Bockstael
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1402053185
This book provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing the environment and natural resources that use information on what people do, not what they say. The authors have worked on models of revealed preferences for valuing environmental and natural resources for several decades. The book provides a candid review of the major conceptual challenges and an exploration of neglected issues in the literature.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 030906581X
Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect. Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components-including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity. The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.
