Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Valuing the environment : methodological and measurement issues

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Valuing the environment : methodological and measurement issues / edited by Rüdiger Pethig. — Dordrecht [etc.] : Kluwer Academic Publishers, cop. 1994

XXII, 346 p. ; 25 cm . — (Environment, science & society ; 2)

Sumario: Ecological dynamics and the valuation of environmental change -- The value of non-market natural assets as production factor -- Valuation and aggregation -- The need for alternatives to the expected utility approach in environmental risk economics or "Who is afraid of Russian Roulette?" -- Welfare measurement under uncertainty -- Valuing changes in health -- Nonuse value: reflections on the definition and measurement -- An assessment of the contingent valuation method -- The use of stated preference methods in the evaluation of environmental change -- A comparison of economic valuation methods -- Energy metrics -- Applying energy analysis to vineyard cultivation and wine production -- Energy analysis and sustainable development

ISBN 0-7923-2602-4

1. Medio ambiente . 2. Aspectos económicos . 3. Contaminación . 4. Política medioambiental . 5. Análisis costo-beneficio . I. Pethig, Rüdiger . II. Environment, science & society ; 2 . III. Title.

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