Abstract
Eight papers discuss the contingent valuation method and experimental methods that can be used to value environmental assets, and show how altruistic concerns can be handled in evaluations of environmental change. Papers focus on current issues in the design, administration, and analysis of contingent valuation surveys; the interpretation of responses in contingent valuation surveys; preference uncertainty, optimal designs, and spikes; valuing changes in health; an experimental economics perspective on whether real environmental benefits can be estimated; current issues in resource accounting; environment-economy interactions in a computable general equilibrium model of Sweden; and intertemporal equilibrium modeling of energy and environmental policies. Contributors are mainly economists. Johansson and Kristrom are at the Stockholm School of Economics. Maler is at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. Index.