Theoretical Background -- Developing the Questionnaire -- Experimental Design -- Collecting the Data -- Econometric Modelling: Basics -- Econometric Modelling: Extensions -- Calculating Marginal and Non-Marginal Welfare Measures -- Validity and Reliability -- Software.

This open access book offers up-to-date advice and practical guidance on how to undertake a discrete choice experiment as a tool for environmental valuation. It discusses crucial issues in designing, implementing and analysing choice experiments. Compiled by leading experts in the field, the...

Information provided in valuation surveys has been shown to affect stated preferences, which in turn may matter for the validity and reliability of survey-based value estimates. Although such information effects are widely documented, the reasons underlying the effects are less established. We...