Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Fifty years of contingent valuation; 3 A practitioner's primer on the contingent valuation method; 4 The use of contingent valuation in benefit-cost analysis; 5 Hypothetical preferences and environmental policy; 6 Protest bids, commensurability, and substitution: contingent valuation and ecological economics; 7 An introduction to choice modeling for non-market valuation; 8 Experimental methods for the testing and design of contingent valuation.
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The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn have compiled a comprehensive and original reference volume containing invaluable case studies that demonstrate the implementation of contingent valuation in a wide variety of applications. Chapters include those on the history of contingent valuation, a practical guide to its implementation, the use o.