The economic valuation of landscape change : theory and policies for land use and conservation /
The increase in landscape degradation in the last decades has resulted in a growing public concern for policies to conserve the countryside. This book presents theories of valuation and economic welfare which are applied to policies to conserve the landscape. Environmental, agricultural and ecologic...
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Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. :
Edward Elgar,
c1998.
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| Series: | New horizons in environmental economics
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Landscape Change, Conservation Policy and Policy Evaluation
- 2. Landscape Values for Landscape Conservation Decision-Making
- 3. Valuing Landscape Change I: Theory and the Multi-Attribute Issue
- 4. Valuing Landscape Change II: Survey and Estimation Issues
- 5. Costs of Landscape Conservation
- 6. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Landscape Change
- 7. Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda - Geres Areas: Presenting the Case-Studies
- 8. A Study of the Landscape Perceptions and Preferences of Visitors to the Peneda - Geres National Park
- 9. CVM Surveys and Summary Statistics of Visitors to the Pennine Dales and Peneda - Geres Areas
- 10. Willingness-to-Pay for Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda - Geres Areas
- 11. The Costs of Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda - Geres Areas
- 12. Cost - Benefit Analysis of Conservation Schemes in the Pennine Dales and Peneda - Geres Areas.
- 13. Comparisons between Case-Studies and Policy Implications
- 14. Validity, Reliability and Transferability of CVM Landscape Benefit Estimates: a Meta-Analysis
- 15. Valuation and Cost - Benefit Analysis of Multi-Attribute Change: Theoretical and Methodological Conclusions.