This text develops protocols for using the transfer method to approach environmental problems and introduces several significant conceptual and methodological advances that refine the transfer process. The book presents a detailed framework for examining the transfer of information, outlines the basic steps of the method and discusses solutions to frequently encountered problems. It then illustrates the method with an extensive case study of environmental externalities from electricity generation. This case study provides the opportunity to discuss salient aspects of the transfer method in more detail, including conceptual principles, the quality of original studies, empirical difficulties and estimation techniques.
This text develops protocols for using the transfer method to approach environmental problems and introduces several significant conceptual and methodological advances that refine the transfer process. The book presents a detailed framework for examining the transfer of information, outlines the basic steps of the method and discusses solutions to frequently encountered problems. It then illustrates the method with an extensive case study of environmental externalities from electricity generation. This case study provides the opportunity to discuss salient aspects of the transfer method in more detail, including conceptual principles, the quality of original studies, empirical difficulties and estimation techniques.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Critical Aspects of the Transfer 3. Designing the Transfer Study 4. Estimating Changes in Health Services 5. Health Effects Measured as Monetary Costs 6. Other Effects: Agriculture, Materials and Visibility 7. Results of the Case Study 8. Assessing the Transfer Method Bibliography
William H. Desvousges, W.H. Desvousges & Associates Inc., F. Reed Johnson, Duke University and H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University, US
'Desvousges, Johnson and Banzhaf have transformed the landscape for
environmental policy analyses. Benefit analyses for policy
evaluation generally require adaptations of existing research
results to meet the needs of specific policy questions. The authors
illustrate how analysts can systematically learn from the
literature, develop methods for incorporating uncertainty in
transferred benefit measures, and integrate the results from
diverse research sources. In the process, the authors develop a
comprehensive set of estimates of the environmental costs of the
residual byproducts from electricity. . .'
*V. Kerry Smith, Arizona State University, US*
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