Using Contingent Valuation in the Design of Payments for Environmental Services Mechanisms : A Review and Assessment

As the use of payments for environmental services (PES) programs for conservation has grown in developing countries, the use of stated preference methods, particularly contingent valuation (CV) surveys, to estimate the maximum amount that users of environmental services (“buyers”) would be willing t...

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Main Authors: Whittington, Dale, Pagiola, Stefano
Language:en_US
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17116