Valuing environmental and natural resources the econometrics of non-market valuation / [electronic resource] :
Timothy C. Haab, Kenneth E. McConnell.
- Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar Pub., c2002.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 326 p.) : ill.
- New horizons in environmental economics .
- New horizons in environmental economics. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-297) and index.
1. Welfare economics for non-market valuation -- 2. Parametric models for contingent valuation -- 3. Distribution-free models for contingent valuation -- 4. The distribution of willingness to pay -- 5. Topics in discrete choice contingent valuation -- 6. Modeling the demand for recreation -- 7. Single site demand estimation -- 8. Site choice models -- 9. Hedonic price equations -- 10. New directions in non-market valuation.
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.