This impressive volume analyzes revealed preference approaches to modelling the demand for recreational resources. It presents one of the most thorough treatments of methods that rely on observed behavior to estimate the value of environmental amenities. The authors have brought together a...

1. Resource evaluation and public policy -- 2. Measuring values, benefits, and costs : an overview -- 3. Welfare measures : definitions and concepts -- 4. Welfare measures : theoretical basis for empirical assessment -- 5. Valuing changes in risk -- 6. Aggregation of values across time -- 7....