MAP20070020618Valuing natural assets : the economics of natural resource damage assessment / Raymond J. Kopp and V. Kerry Smith, editors. — Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future, cop. 1993XIX, 358 p. ; 22 cmSumario: Introduction -- Understanding damages to natural assets -- Natural resource damages, Superfund and the Courts -- Uncertain legal issues -- Economics of natural resource damage assessment -- Implementing natural resource damage assessments -- Indirect methods for assessing natural resource damages under CERCLA -- Assessing natural resource damages with indirect methods -- Use of direct methods for valuing natural resource damages -- Contingent valuation and the legal arena -- Marking time with CERCLA: assessing the effect of time on damages from hazardous waste -- Nonuse values in natural resource damage assessment -- Natural resource damage assessment: the road ahead