This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit
transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to
researchers and practitioners. Early chapters provide accessible
introductory materials suitable for non-economists. These chapters also
detail how benefit transfer is used within the policy process. Later
chapters cover more advanced topics suited to valuation researchers,
graduate students and those with similar knowledge of economic and
statistical theory and methods. This book provides the most complete
coverage of environmental benefit transfer methods available in a single
location.
The book targets a wide audience, including undergraduate and graduate
students, practitioners in economics and other disciplines looking for a
one-stop handbook covering benefit transfer topics and those who wish to
apply or evaluate benefit transfer methods. It is designed for those
both with and without training in economics