this study has been conducted for the first time in iran, by contingent valuation method (cvm) and using extended linear expenditure system (eles) to estimate nonrnarket services of gerebygan manmade forest. according to this study the existance value of three principal nonrnarket services including climat regulation, erosion control and habitat/refugia estimated respectively at 32250934930 ria...

he water framework directive of the european union has become a milestone in the water policy for this area. this directive aims to achieve a “good ecological status” of bodies of water in the member states of the european union by 2015. the water framework directive calls for the application of economic principles, economic approaches, tools and instruments. the functions of this economic anal...

India has a lot of historical places. Among them one the most precious is Taj Mahal. Due to fewer threats conservation, placed on the1996 watch list 100 endangered sites by World Monument Fund. In this study, an attempt was made calculate economic value Mahal in relation conservation issues. This study assesses households' WTP for through CVM study. Single Bounded Dichotomous Choice with open-e...

The Willingness-to-Pay approach is the basic justi...cation for the use of the Contingent Valuation method to evaluate public mortality risk reduction programs. However, aggregating unweighted willingness-to-pay is a valid method only when individuals have the same marginal value of money, an unrealistic assumption in the presence of heterogeneity. We show that heterogeneity on wealth and basel...

BACKGROUND The identification of the attribution of economic value that users of a health system assign to a health service could be useful in planning these services. The method of contingent valuation can provide information about the user's perception of value in monetary terms, and therefore comparable between services of a very different nature. This study attempts to extract the economic ...

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consumers’ willingness to pay for nonmarket commodities such as wildlife, quality of the environment and forest services (including timber production, water conservation, soil conservation, oxygen supply, carbon sequestration, recreation services and wildlife preservation) is a measure of value of these resources. in recent years the contingent valuation has been used to determine this and othe...

this paper is concerned with the economic valuation of the coral reef within kish island in persian gulf of iran. for calculating this value, all components of use and non-use values are estimated and then according to each of them, suitable method has applied. many different evaluation tools such as contingent valuation method, zonal travel cost method, replacement cost, avoided cost method, ...