Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values : A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners

Section 1: Introduction and Policy Perspectives -- Introduction: Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values -- Introduction to Benefit Transfer Methods -- The Use of Benefit Transfer in the United States -- The Use and Development of Benefit Transfer in Europe -- Applied Benefit Transfer: An Australian and New Zealand Policy Perspective -- Benefit Transfer for Water Quality Regulatory Rulemaking in the United States -- Section 2: Methods and Applications -- Benefit Transfers with the Contingent Valuation Method -- Applying Benefit Transfer with Limited Data: Unit Value Transfers in Practice -- Benefit Transfer Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data -- Benefit Transfers: Insights from Choice Experiments -- Frontiers in Modeling Discrete Choice Experiments: A Benefit Transfer Perspective -- Benefit Transfer for Ecosystem Service Valuation: An Introduction to Theory -- Ecosystem Services Assessment and Benefit Transfer.-Benefit Transfer Validity and Reliability -- Section 3: Meta-Analysis -- Meta-analysis: Statistical Methods -- Meta-analysis: Rationale, Issues and Applications -- Meta-analysis: Econometric Advances and New Perspectives toward Data Synthesis and Robustness -- Section 4: Spatial and Geographical Considerations -- Spatial and Geographical Aspects of Benefit Transfer -- Reliability of Meta-analytic Benefit Transfers of International Value of Statistical Life Estimates: Tests and Illustrations -- GIS-Based Mapping of Ecosystem Services: The Case of Coral Reefs -- Section 5. Bayesian Methods -- A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach to the Transfer of Subjective Well-Being Values of Air Quality -- Optimal Scope and Bayesian Model Search in Benefit Transfer -- Structural Benefits Transfer using Bayesian Econometrics -- Section 6. Status and Prospects.-Benefit Transfer: The Present State and Future Prospects.