Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods

Richard Ready

ISBN 10: 1402040814 / ISBN 13: 9781402040818

Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands, 2006

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The transfer of environmental values in time and space has increased rapidly with the widespread use of cost benefit analysis in project evaluation and regulatory assessments over the last three decades. Over the last 15 years, other policy uses like environmental costing, greening of systems of national accounts and natural resource damage assessments after oil spills and other pollution accidents have also contributed to the increased demand for environmental values. However, most early transfers were conducted in an uncritical manner, often lacking sound theoretical, statistical and empirical basis, and did not question the validity and reliability of the transferred values. What appears to be the first environmental value transfer exercise estimated damages, and illustrates the point that what is generally termed benefit transfer, should rather be termed value transfer in order to capture both reductions and increments in environmental quality and natural resources. This first attempt to transfer environmental values seems to be the calculation of lost recreational value from the Hell's Canyon hydroelectric project more than 30 years ago, as described by John V. Krutilla and Anthony C. Fisher in their book (Chapters 5 and 6): The Economics of Natural Environments Studies in the Valuation of Commodity and Amenity Resources. (John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1975). The first large-scale user of value transfer was the USDA Forest Service.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781402040818

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods
• Verlag: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1402040814
• ISBN-13: 9781402040818
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 241B x 160 H x 21 T Millimeter Breite: 241 mm, Höhe: 160 mm, Tiefe: 21 mm
• Gewicht: 623 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This volume offers a snapshot of the research that is ongoing in the area of value transfer. It provides relevant input for increasing the quality of cost-benefit analyses of projects with environmental and health impacts. The volume includes papers by some of the most influential authors in the area and covers the latest developments in the field.

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The transfer of environmental values in time and space has increased rapidly with the widespread use of cost benefit analysis in project evaluation and regulatory assessments over the last three decades. The purpose of this volume is to take a snapshot of the research that is ongoing in the area of value transfer (benefit transfer). It includes papers by some of the most influential authors in the area, and covers the latest developments in the field. It will be useful for academics conducting research in this area and for practitioners in government agencies and ministries, as well as consulting firms.