Hoping to advance the development and application of non-market environmental valuation (NMEV) for policy-making, Bennett (environmental management, Australian National U.) presents 17 chapters that provide illustrations of the application of NMEV techniques across a range of geographic contexts and for both use and non-use values of the environment. The focus is on two groups of techniques: the first relies on the revealed preferences of people specifically related to the environmental good or service of interest and the second involves asking people for their stated preferences for environmental goods or services using hypothetical choice contexts. The revealed preference techniques discussed are the hedonic pricing method and the travel cost method and the stated preference techniques discussed are the related contingent valuation, choice modeling, and contingent behavior methods. Annotation ⓒ2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

1. The Rise and Rise of Non-market Environmental Valuation 2. Using Hedonic Pricing for Estimating Compensation Payments for Noise and Other Externalities from New Roads 3. A Hedonic Price Model of Coral Reef Quality in Hawaii 4. Applying the Travel Cost Method to Minorca Beaches: Some Policy Results 5. The Role of Water Quality Perceptions in Modelling Lake Recreation Demand 6. Testing the Robustness of Contingent Valuation Estimates of WTP to Survey Mode and Treatment of Protest Responses 7. Consequentiality and Contingent Values: An Emerging Paradigm 8. Decision versus Experiences Utility: An Investigation Using the Choice Experiment Method 9. Bioindicator-based Stated Preference Valuation for Aquatic Habitat and Ecosystem Service Restoration 10. Efficiency versus Bias: The Role of Distributional Parameters in Count Contingent Behaviour Models 11. Estimation of Household Water Demand with Merged Revealed and Stated Preference Data 12. Preference Heterogeneity and Non-market Benefits: The Roles of Structural Hedonic and Sorting Models 13. Dealing with Scale and Scope Issues in Stated Preference Experiments 14. Experimental Design Strategies for Stated Preference Studies Dealing with Non Market Goods 15. Incentive and Information Properties of Preference Questions: Commentary and Extensions 16. Valid Value Estimates and Value Estimate Validation: Better Methods and Better Testing for Stated Preference Research 17. Evaluating Benefit Transfer for Canadian Water Quality Improvements Using US/Canada Metadata: An Application of International Meta-analysis Index