Natural Resource and Environmetal Economics Web Links

Chapter 12: Valuation

Valuation databases

• EVRI  Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory: site developed by Environment Canada, provides information from about 1000 valuation studies, and facilitates benefits transfer.

National/Regional EPA's

• U.K. The Environment Agency
• U.S. Environmental Potection Agency
• U.K. Natural Environment Research Council
• NSW EPA (Catalogues vast number of valuation studies and puts on a consistent basis)

United Nations and other international organisations

• World Bank
• World Bank: Environmental Economics and Indicators

Academic sites, including reading lists for selected topics in valuation.

• UEA GIS application to environmental valuation  Using GIS to transfer site valuations to other sites
• Polasky's Valuation Bibliography  Extract from a wider bibliogaphy, focussing on valuation methods
• Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: THE ECONOMETRICS OF NON-MARKET VALUATION (Haab and McConnell)
• Hedonic Pricing A set of lecture notes from a course taught by Professor John Whitehead at East Carolina University.
• Stated Preferences A reading list of references for random parameter models in stated preferences estimation of WTP, compiled by Dr Stephen Swallow.

Other sites

• Ecosystem valuation A site which provides non-technical information about how economists value ecosystem services. It also contains an excellent set of links to other sites with information about environmental valuation.
• The Environmental and Cost-Benefit Analysis web site A major site bringing together a very large number of source materials and news about CBA and valuation
• US Corps of Army Engineers: Institute for Water Resources Contains a lot of material on valuation and project appraisal, especially in the context of water resources

Valuation and Sustainability

• European Centre for Nature Conservation (transfer to biodiversity location?)