Valuing Natural Assets - The Economics of Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Paperback)

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 process requiring careful delineation of how the injuries connect to the resource's services. Second, a single identified entry---not generalized, anonymous taxpayers---must pay damages based on what is measured, and evaluations of the measurement techniques take place not in agency meeting rooms but in courtrooms. Contributors to Valuing Natural Assets examine the ways in which requirements for damage assessment change how the measures are used, presented, received, and defended. Drawing upon their personal involvement with the process and the research issues it has raised---both in providing analysis for defendants or plaintiffs in damage assessment cases and in writing for academic journals---their chapters reflect individual research programs that temper the rigorous demands of scholarship with the equally demanding standards of litigation.

General

Imprint:	Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press)
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1993
First published:	1994
Authors:	Raymond J. Kopp • V. Kerry Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	378
ISBN-13:	978-0-915707-67-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Environment law Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Waste management > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General
LSN:	0-915707-67-5
Barcode:	9780915707676

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