Valuing Nature With Travel Cost Models: A Manual - Couverture rigide

Ward, Frank A.; Beal, Diana

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1840640782 ISBN 13 : 9781840640786

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Increasingly, natural environments are being changed by our activities, and potential human uses of natural resources are often incompatible with environmental protection goals. Travel cost models supply economic information to estimate values in environmental decision-making that otherwise are not available. In the absence of this information, non-market benefits are likely to be ignored in the decision-making process.

An important question faced by policymakers centres around the appropriate mix of policies to provide a balance in the use of environments in their natural state versus commodity production. Appropriate analyses of rival policies regarding land usage depend on the availability of data on benefits and costs. This book provides indispensable guidance to the TCM (Travel Cost Method) methodology and its uses, as well as highlighting areas where further development is necessary.

The book presents a self-contained treatment of TCM along with a wide range of applications to natural resource and environmental policy questions. It will be an indispensable tool for policymakers in both government and NGOs, natural resource site managers as well as academics and researchers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frank A. Ward, Professor of Resource Economics, New Mexico State University, US and Diana Beal, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840640782
• ISBN 13: 9781840640786
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible