Valuing Natural Assets: The Economics of Natural Resource Damage Assessment

by Raymond J. Kopp and V. Kerry Smith

Book Overview

Assessing natural resource damages often requires the use of nonmarket valuation techniques that were developed for use in benefit-cost analyses. Natural resource damage assessment dramatically changes the context for applying them. Two aspects of this context are especially important. First, damages are to be measured by the monetary value of the losses people experience, including their use and nonuse values, because of injuries to natural resources---a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915707675
• ISBN13: 9780915707676
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Rff Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"