The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation, Volumes I, II and III Volume I: Foundations, Initial Development, Statistical Approaches Volume II:Conceptual and Empirical Issues Volume III: Applications: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Natural Resource Damage Assessment

Contents: Volume I: Foundations, Initial Development, Statistical Approaches: Introduction; Part I Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations: The four consumer surpluses, J.R. Hicks; The interpretation of voting in the allocation of economic resources, Howard R. Bowen; Capital returns from soil conservation practices, S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup; The life you save may be your own, T.C. Schelling; The pure theory of public expenditure, Paul A. Samuelson; Wilderness areas: an extra-market problem in resource allocation, L. Gregory Hines; Conservation reconsidered, John V. Krutilla; Collective-consumption services of individual-consumption goods, Burt A. Weisbrod; Environmental preservation, uncertainty, and irreversibility, Kenneth J. Arrow and Anthony C. Fisher. Part II Early Applications: The value of big game hunting in a private forest, Robert K. Davis; Congestion, quality deterioration, and optimal use: wilderness recreation in the Spanish Peaks primitive area, Charles J. Cicchetti and V. Kerry Smith; Measuring benefits generated by urban water parks, Arthur H. Darling; Congestion and willingness to pay: a study of beach use, Kenneth E. McConnell; Bidding games for the valuation of aesthetic environmental improvements, Alan Randall, Berry Ives and Clyde Eastman; The valuation of aesthetic preferences, David S. Brookshire, Berry C. Ives and William D. Schulze; The demand for clean water: the case of the Charles River, Frederick W. Gramlich; Option value: empirical evidence from a case study of recreation and water quality, Douglas A. Greenley, Richard G. Walsh and Robert A. Young; Measuring values of extra-market goods: are indirect measures biased? Richard C. Bishop and Thomas A. Heberlein; Application of stochastic choice modelling to policy analysis of public goods: a case study of air quality improvements, Edna Loehman and Vo Hu De. Part III Early Tests of Validity: Comparisons of methods for resource evaluation, Jack L. Knetsch and Robert K. Davis; Estimating demand for public goods: an experiment, Peter Bohm; Valuing public goods: a comparison of survey and hedonic approaches, David S. Brookshire, Mark A. Thayer, William D. Schulze, Ralph C. d'Arge; Contingent valuation techniques for assessing environmental impacts: further evidence, Mark A. Thayer; Valuing environmental commodities: some recent experiments, William D. Schulz, Ralph C. d'Arge and David S. Brookshire; Effect of distance on the preservation value of water quality, Ronald J. Sutherland and Richard G. Walsh; Option price estimates for water quality improvements: a contingent evaluation study for the Monongahela River, William H. Desvousges, V. Kerry Smith and Ann Fisher; Pricing environmental health risks: survey assessments of risk-risk and risk-dollar trade-offs for chronic bronchitis, W. Kip Viscusi, Wesley A. Magat and Joel Huber. Part IV Statistical Approaches: Welfare evaluations in contingent valuation experiments with discrete responses, Michael W. Hanemann; Efficient estimation methods for 'closed-ended' contingent valuation surveys, Trudy Ann Cameron and Michelle D. James; A new paradigm for valuing non-market goods using referendum data: maximum likelihood estimation by censored logistic regression, Trudy Ann Cameron; Models for referendum data: the structure of discrete choice models for contingent valuation, K.E. McConnell; Contingent valuation and social choice, Daniel McFadden; Confidence intervals for evaluating benefits estimates from dichotomous choice contingent valuation studies, Timothy Park, John B. Loomis and Michael Creel; A non-parametric approach to the estimation of welfare measures in discrete response valuation studies, Bengt Kriström; Experimental design for discrete choice voter preference surveys, Richard T. Carson and Dan Steinberg; Referendum models and negative willingness to pay: alternative solutions, Timothy C. Haab and Kenneth E. McConnell; Spike models in contingent valuation, Bengt Kriström; Allowing for zeros in dichotomous-choice contingent-valuation models, Megan Werner; Bias in discrete response contingent valuation, Barbara J. Kanninen; Statistical efficiency of double-bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation, Michael Hanemann, John Loomis and Barbara Kanninen; Modeling response incentive effects in dichotomous choice contingent valuation data, Anna Alberini, Barbara Kanninen and Richard T. Carson; Referendum contingent valuation estimates: sensitivity to assignment of offered values, Trudy Ann Cameron and Daniel D. Huppert; Optimal designs for discrete-choice contingent valuation surveys: single-bound, double-bound and bivariate models, Anna Alberini; Name index. Volume II: Conceptual and Empirical Issues: Introduction; Part I Conceptual Issues: Overviews of the Debate: Contingent valuation ; a user's guide, Richard T. Carson; Beyond the crucial experiment: mapping the performance characteristics of contingent valuation, Alan Randall; Administering contingent valuation surveys in developi

Biography

Richard T Carson is Professor in the Department of Economics, University of California - San Diego, USA.