Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods

Ståle Navrud, Richard Ready1402040814, 9781402040818

The transfer of environmental values in time and space has increased rapidly with the widespread use of cost benefit analysis in project evaluation and regulatory assessments over the last three decades. The purpose of this volume is to take a snapshot of the research that is ongoing in the area of value transfer (benefit transfer). It includes papers by some of the most influential authors in the area, and covers the latest developments in the field. It will be useful for academics conducting research in this area and for practitioners in government agencies and ministries, as well as consulting firms.

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Table of contents :
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