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The Economic Valuation of Landscape Change
Theory and Policies for Land Use and Conservation
9781858987811 Edward Elgar Publishing
The increase in landscape degradation in the last decades has resulted in a growing public concern for policies to conserve the countryside. This book presents theories of valuation and economic welfare which are applied to policies to conserve the landscape.
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The increase in landscape degradation in the last decades has resulted in a growing public concern for policies to conserve the countryside. This book presents theories of valuation and economic welfare which are applied to policies to conserve the landscape.
The book discusses the criteria for landscape conservation decision making and places particular emphasis on the multi-dimensional nature of landscape change and the selection of an optimal policy mix for conservation. The author examines the economic theory and methods used to analyse changes in the landscape, and then applies theory and methods to conservation schemes.
These empirical case studies provide rich information on the economics of landscape conservation under quite different policy contexts. Special emphasis is placed on contingent valuation methods to assess the willingness-to-pay for landscape conservation and use is made of cost–benefit analysis to select the optimal policy mix for landscape conservation, taking into account the practical problem of limited information.
Environmental, agricultural and ecological economists will be interested in this book as will geographers and those involved in planning and countryside management.
The book discusses the criteria for landscape conservation decision making and places particular emphasis on the multi-dimensional nature of landscape change and the selection of an optimal policy mix for conservation. The author examines the economic theory and methods used to analyse changes in the landscape, and then applies theory and methods to conservation schemes.
These empirical case studies provide rich information on the economics of landscape conservation under quite different policy contexts. Special emphasis is placed on contingent valuation methods to assess the willingness-to-pay for landscape conservation and use is made of cost–benefit analysis to select the optimal policy mix for landscape conservation, taking into account the practical problem of limited information.
Environmental, agricultural and ecological economists will be interested in this book as will geographers and those involved in planning and countryside management.
Contents
Contents: Part I: Introduction 1. Landscape Change, Conservation Policy and Policy Evaluation Part II: Valuation and Cost–Benefit Analysis of Landscape Change 2. Landscape Values for Landscape Conservation Decision-Making 3. Valuing Landscape Change I: Theory and the Multi-Attribute Issue 4. Valuing Landscape Change II: Survey and Estimation Issues 5. Costs of Landscape Conservation 6. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Landscape Change Part III: The Case-Studies 7. Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Gerês Areas 8. A Study of the Landscape Perceptions and Preferences of Visitors to the Peneda-Gerês National Park 9. CVM Surveys and Summary Statistics of Visitors to the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Gerês Areas 10. Willingness-to-Pay for Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Gerês Areas 11. The Costs of Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Gerês Areas 12. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Conservation Schemes in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Gerês Areas 13. Comparisions between Case-Studies and Policy Implications Part IV: Methodological Appraisal and Conclusions 14. Validity, Reliability and Transferability of CVM Landscape Benefit Estimates: a Meta-Analysis 15. Valuation and Cost–Benefit Analysis of Multi-Attribute Change: Theoretical and Methodological Conclusions
