Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values (eBook)

Section 1: Introduction and Policy Perspectives.- Introduction: Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values.- Introduction to Benefit Transfer Methods.- The Use of Benefit Transfer in the United States.- The Use and Development of Benefit Transfer in Europe.- Applied Benefit Transfer: An Australian and New Zealand Policy Perspective.- Benefit Transfer for Water Quality Regulatory Rulemaking in the United States.- Section 2: Methods and Applications.- Benefit Transfers with the Contingent Valuation Method.- Applying Benefit Transfer with Limited Data: Unit Value Transfers in Practice.- Benefit Transfer Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data.- Benefit Transfers:  Insights from Choice Experiments.- Frontiers in Modeling Discrete Choice Experiments: A Benefit Transfer Perspective.- Benefit Transfer for Ecosystem Service Valuation: An Introduction to Theory.- Ecosystem Services Assessment and Benefit Transfer.-Benefit Transfer Validity and Reliability.- Section 3: Meta-Analysis.- Meta-analysis: Statistical Methods.- Meta-analysis: Rationale, Issues and Applications.- Meta-analysis: Econometric Advances and New Perspectives toward Data Synthesis and Robustness.- Section 4: Spatial and Geographical Considerations.- Spatial and Geographical Aspects of Benefit Transfer.-   Reliability of Meta-analytic Benefit Transfers of International Value of Statistical Life Estimates: Tests and Illustrations.- GIS-Based Mapping of Ecosystem Services: The Case of Coral Reefs.- Section 5.  Bayesian Methods.- A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach to the Transfer of Subjective Well-Being Values of Air Quality.- Optimal Scope and Bayesian Model Search in Benefit Transfer.- Structural Benefits Transfer using Bayesian Econometrics.- Section 6.  Status and Prospects.-Benefit Transfer:  The Present State and Future Prospects.