Applied environmental economics : a GIS approach to cost-benefit analysis
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Applied environmental economics : a GIS approach to cost-benefit analysis
Cambridge University Press, 2005
- : pbk
Available at 19 libraries
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Foreword by David W. Pearce
Bibliography: p. 293-331
Includes index
"First paperback edition 2005"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The complex real-world interactions between the economy and the environment form both the focus of and main barrier to applied research within the field of environmental economics. However, geographical information systems (GIS) allow economists to tackle such complexity head on by directly incorporating diverse datasets into applied research rather than resorting to simplifying and often unrealistic assumptions. This innovative book applies GIS techniques to spatial cost-benefit analysis of a complex and topical land use change problem - the conversion of agricultural land to multipurpose woodland - looking in detail at issues such as opportunity costs, timber yield, recreation, carbon storage, etc., and embracing cost-cutting themes such as the evaluation of environmental preferences and the spatial transfer of benefit functions.
Table of Contents
- Foreword David W. Pearce
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Recreation: valuation methods
- 3. Recreation: predicting values
- 4. Recreation: predicting visits
- 5. Timber valuation
- 6. Modelling and mapping timber yield and its value
- 7. Modelling and valuing carbon sequestration in trees, timber products and forest soils
- 8. Modelling opportunity cost: agricultural output values
- 9. Cost benefit analysis using GIS
- 10. Conclusions and future directions.
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