Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods

• Review of Methods for Value Transfer.- Benefit and Informational Transfers.- Correspondence and Convergence in Benefit Transfer Accuracy: Meta-Analytic Review of the Literature.- Transferring Landscape Values: How And How Accurately?.- Morbidity Value Transfer.- Uncertainty, Benefit Transfers and Physical Models: A Middle Rio Grande Valley Focus.- Estimating the Economic Value of Improvements in River Ecology Using Choice Experiments: An application to the water framework directive.- Contrasting conventional with multi-level modeling approaches to meta-analysis: Expectation consistency in UK woodland recreation values.- Benefit Transfer Using Meta-Analysis In Recreation Economic Valuation.- Benefit Value Transfers Conditional On Site Attributes: Some Evidence Of Reliability From Forest Recreation In Ireland.- Can use and Non-use Values Be Transferred Across Countries?.- The Application of Bayesian Methods in Benefit Transfer.- Improving the Practice of Benefits Transfer: A Preference Calibration Approach.- How Much Is Enough? The Value Of Information From Benefit Transfers In A Policy Context.- Lessons Learned for Environmental Value Transfer.

From the reviews: "This book provides ample evidence assessing the reliability of the benefit transfer method for different environmental improvements. ... it gives the reader a thorough exposition of the ongoing research in the area of value transfer. For readers interested in different case studies assessing the accuracy of the benefit transfer methods, this book is most definitely recommended as it deals with some well-performed case studies using current state-of-the-art procedures from the benefit transfer literature." (Mitesh Kataria, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 35 (2), 2008)