Résumé :
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This book stems from a unique provision of the environmental regulatory system in illinois. virtually all of the studies have encountered great difficulty in quantifying the economic advantages - benefits - of the proposals. as a result, the illinois department of energy and natural resources has periodically commisssioned reviews of the "state of the art" in environmental benefits assessment. the authors for the individual chapters were identified in early 1988 and preliminary versions of their contributions were presented in an open workshop in chicago. the first part deals with theory and methods: environmental demand theory, environmental benefit estimation, constructed markets... the second part deals with methods for valuing classes of environmental effects: health, aesthetics, recreation, materials damages, total and nonuse values.
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