Valuing Rural Amenities

Valuing Rural Amenities
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2001-01-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9264192123

This volume reviews a range of different valuation methodologies -- stated preferences, cost-benefit, revealed preferences, and others -- and looks at how these different approaches influence choices in rural policy.

Cultivating Rural Amenities An Economic Development Perspective

Cultivating Rural Amenities An Economic Development Perspective
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 109
Release: 1999-10-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9264173943

This book points out that because many natural and cultural features are public goods, with limited markets and hazy property rights, public policies are needed to strike the delicate balance between supply and demand.

Cultivating Rural Amenities

Cultivating Rural Amenities
Author: Yukiya Saika
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

The future of rural areas is high on the domestic and international policy agenda. Restructuring of the agricultural sector, and accompanying reform of agricultural policies, and the challenge of meeting sustainable development objectives are key preoc

Rural America

Rural America
Author: Caroline S. Kelsohn
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781590335000

Thomas Jefferson once envisioned the United States as a 'nation of yeomen farmers'. Looking around today, however, illustrates that nothing could be further from the truth. In a globalised world and techno-centred society, urban sprawl is overtaking rural America. For over a century, farming was the backbone of the American economy, and though it is still critical to American productivity, many rural areas are plagued by poverty and job reduction. Agricultural issues have a hold over national politics (as in the debates over farm subsidies), but they cannot change several significant trends in America today: the movement toward fewer and larger farms, environmental pressures from urban and suburban interests, and changing food consumption patterns. In order to assist the remaining 'yeomen farmers', a comprehensive and integrated agricultural policy must be initiated to sustain the nation's farming communities. This book analyses the status of the farm industry in rural America, providing a historical context for agriculture and assessing its future for the nation. and the information provided in this book is necessary to understanding the nature of what has historically been a key component of American industry and life.

The Economic Value of Landscapes

The Economic Value of Landscapes
Author: C. Martijn van der Heide
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415563283

This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, landscape governance and landscape perceptions from different countries. Merely saying that landscapes have value or are important is not sufficient - not when resources are scarce and have alternative uses. Measuring and quantifying the economic value of changes in landscapes would help ensure that landscape management decisions are both (economically) rational and sound.

Farmland Conversion The Spatial Dimension of Agricultural and Land Use Policies

Farmland Conversion The Spatial Dimension of Agricultural and Land Use Policies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2009-03-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9264415521

Land is a key input into agricultural production and the agricultural sector remains the main user of rural land in most OECD countries. How land is managed in agriculture, and the conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses, are likely to have implications not only for the provision of food, but also for the supply of public goods such as rural amenities, as well as for the quantity and quality of water.

Handbook of Biodiversity Valuation A Guide for Policy Makers

Handbook of Biodiversity Valuation A Guide for Policy Makers
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2002-03-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9264175792

This Handbook describes the types of values usually associated with biodiversity. While there are exceptions to the need to prioritise economic values over other values, economic valuation has a sound theoretical foundation that can help clarify the tradeoffs implicit in public policy decisions.

Contingent Valuation

Contingent Valuation
Author: R. Carson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 085793628X

This major reference work the first of its kind provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation. It includes entries on over 7,500 contingent valuation papers and studies from over 130 countries covering both the published and grey literatures. This book provides an interpretive historical account of the development of contingent valuation, the most commonly used approach to placing a value on goods not normally sold in the marketplace. The major fields catalogued here include culture, the environment, and health application. This bibliography is an ideal starting point for researchers wanting to find other studies that have valued goods or used techniques similar to those they are interested in. For those wanting to conduct meta analyses, the book will serve as an invaluable guide to source material. For those wanting to conduct meta analyses, the book will serve as an invaluable guide to source material. In addition to the print edition we offer access, for purchasers of the book, to a website providing the contents of as a searchable Word document and in a variety of standard bibliographic database forms. Contingent Valuation is an indispensable reference source for researchers, scholars and policymakers concerned with survey approaches to the problem of environmental valuation.