Valuing Rural Amenities [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
United StatesContent Provider
United States Dept. of Agriculture.Content Provider
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2001.
Economic valuation is widely used in OECD countries as a way of assessing the (usually monetary) value of goods that have no markets. In the rural context, valuation methods are used to argue for or against projects and policy choices in areas as diverse as agricultural support policies, local economic development, land use and biodiversity assessment.This volume reviews a range of different valuation methodologies -- stated preferences, cost-benefit, revealed preferences, and others -- and looks at how these different approaches influence choices in rural policy. Its aim is to assess whether some set of international guidelines or standards could be used to reduce the subjectivity of the evidentiary information.
""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Table 1. Classification of environmental valuation techniques""; ""Table 2. IVS bias for a series of 4 CVM studies of agricultural landscapes in the UK and Portugal""; ""Table 3. Empirical valuation of emternalities in different agro-processes and regions""; ""Table 4. Contrasting features of Contingent Valuation (CVM) and Citizensâ€? Juries as methods...""; ""Table 5. Levels of confidence in estimates of the economic value of biodiversity""; ""Table 6. A classification of amenities""
""Table 7. USDA conservation expenditures, by activity and program, fiscal years 1983- 2000""""Table 8. Economic losses associated with wetland losses, 1954-1992""; ""List of Figures""; ""Figure 1. Diagram of change in the level of amenity""; ""Figure 2. Emternalities vs. externalities""; ""Figure 3. Positive externalities where government intervention is unnecessary""; ""Figure 4. Amenities associated with rural land use""; ""Figure 5. Environmental impacts of alternative agricultural production intensities""; ""Figure 6. Alternative linkages in the provision of rural amenities""
""Figure 7. Physical relationship between agricultural inputs, outputs and externalities""""List of Boxes""; ""Box 1. Variety of types of CART""; ""Box 2. Dedicated Environmental Funds in the UK""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""Part 1. ASSESSING DEMAND AND DERIVING VALUE""; ""Chapter 2. Valuation Techniques and Benefit Transfer Methods: Strengths, Weaknesses and Policy Utility""; ""1. Whose preferences should count?""; ""Table 1. Classification of environmental valuation techniques""; ""2. Valuation techniques based on individual preferences""; ""3. Use of valuation techniques in policy""
""4. Benefit transfer approaches and their reliability""""4.1. Unit value transfer""; ""4.2. Function transfer""; ""Benefit Function Transfer""; ""Meta-analysis""; ""4.3. Accuracy of benefit transfer""; ""5. Potential for increased policy use of original and transferred value estimates""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Comments by Mitsuyasu Yabe, National Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Japan""; ""Figure 1. Diagram of change in the level of amenity""; ""Chapter 3. Problems and Potential in Valuing Multiple Outputs: Externality and Public-Good Non-Commodity...""
""1. Policy context""""2. The valuation problem""; ""3. The basic valuation model""; ""4. Demand interactions and aggregation across policy effects""; ""Table 2. IVS bias for a series of 4 CVM studies of agricultural landscapes in the UK and Portugal""; ""5. Approaches to empirical valuation of multiple non-commodity outputs""; ""6. Conclusions and further issues raised by policy uses""; ""Annex 1. Demonstration of Additivity of Sequential Values""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Comments by Peter Berkowitz, European Commission, DG Agriculture""; ""1. Specification of Outputs""
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Economic valuation is widely used in OECD countries as a way of assessing the (usually monetary) value of goods that have no markets. In the rural context, valuation methods are used to argue for or against projects and policy choices in areas as diverse as agricultural support policies, local economic development, land use and biodiversity assessment.This volume reviews a range of different valuation methodologies -- stated preferences, cost-benefit, revealed preferences, and others -- and looks at how these different approaches influence choices in rural policy. Its aim is to assess whether some set of international guidelines or standards could be used to reduce the subjectivity of the evidentiary information.
Rural development
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