MAP20070009430Valuing the environment : six cases studies / edited by Jean Philippe Barde and David W. Pearce. — London : Earthscan Publications, 1991271 p. ; 22 cmSumario: This is why the OECD launched a study to identify and analyse the obstacles to a wider and more consistent use of benefit estimates in environmental decision making. Case studies in six OECD countries - the Federal Repuplic of Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States - were carried out by independent experts making an in-depth analysis of the actual use and non-use of benefit estimates, and of the favourable factors and obstacles thereon. This book presents these six case studies