Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods Book

Preface   S. Navrud   R. Ready     vii
Foreword   A.C. Fisher     ix
Review of Methods for Value Transfer   S. Navrud   R. Ready     1
Benefit and Informational Transfers   D. Brookshire   J. Chermak     11
Correspondence and Convergence in Benefit Transfer Accuracy: Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature   R. Rosenberger   T. Phipps     23
Transferring Landscape Values: How and How Accurately?   J.M.L. Santos     45
Morbidity Value Transfer   R. Ready   S. Navrud     77
Uncertainty, Benefit Transfers and Physical Models: A Middle Rio Grande Valley Focus   D. Brookshire   J. Chermak   R. DeSimone     89
Estimating the Economic Value of Improvements in River Ecology Using Choice Experiments: An Application to the Water Framework Directive   N. Hanley   R.E. Wright   B. Alvarez-Farizo     111
Contrasting Conventional with Multi-Level Modeling Approaches to Meta-Analysis: Expectation Consistency in UK Woodland Recreation Values   Ian J. Bateman   Andrew P. Jones     131
Benefit Transfer Using Meta-Analysis in Recreation Economic Valuation   R. Shrestha   R. Rosenberger   J. Loomis     161
Benefit Value Transfers Conditional on Site Attributes: Some Evidence of Reliability from Forest Recreation in Ireland   R. Scarpa   W.G. Hutchinson   S.M. Chilton   J. Buongiorno     179
Can Use and Non-Use Values be Transferred Across Countries?   D. Kristofersson   S. Navrud     207
The Application of Bayesian Methods in Benefit Transfer   C. Leon   R. Leon   F. Vazquez-Polo     227
Improving the Practice of Benefits Transfer: A Preference Calibration Approach   S. Pattanayak   V.K. Smith   G. Van Houtven     241
How Much is Enough? The Value of Information from Benefit Transfers in a Policy Context   D. Barton     261
Lessons Learned for Environmental Value Transfer   S. Navrud   R. Ready     283