Valuing Recreation and the Environment

Edited by Joseph A. Herriges, Associate Professor of Economics and Catherine L. Kling, Professor of Economics, Iowa State University, US

• Contents: Preface 1. The Behavioral Basis of Non-Market Valuation 2. Welfare Analysis with Discrete Choice Models 3. TWO RUMS UnCLOAKED: Nested-Logit Models of Site Choice and Nested-Logit Models of Participation and Site Choice 4. Mixed Logit Models for Recreation Demand 5. An Empirical Assessment of Multinominal Probit and Logit Models for Recreation Demand 6. Corner Solution Models of Recreation Demand: A Comparison of Competing Frameworks 7. Joint Estimation of Contingent Valuation and Truncated Recreational Demands 8. Nonresponse Bias in Mail Survey Data: Salience vs. Endogenous Survey Complexity 9. Recreation Demand Systems for Multiple Site Count Data Travel Cost Models 10. Can We Count on Count Models? Index

'Although it deals with valuing recreational resorts using revealed preference methods, this is not a book to bring to your recreation resort. The papers which make up the content are so interesting, well-written and contain such a wealth of information that you will not find time to explore even the sunniest beaches or the most scenic landscapes.'