While you can establish the value of many goods by offering them for sale, the contingent valuation method represents another method of establishing value. This method is especially useful for ...

One way of estimating the value of a health benefit is by the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of the individuals concerned. In this Swedish study, 82 subjects aged 19 yrs with high caries experience were ...

The Dominican Republic has a national system of protected areas integrated for 128 conservation units, covering a land area of 1.2 million hectares, representing around one-quarter of the country's ...

The logic of measuring the economic loss from pollution events is compelling. Yet when losses occur in the form of nonuse values, the contingent valuation method (CVM) is the only satisfactory ...