The valuation of aesthetic preferences

Value elicitation: Is there anything in there?

“…In response, investigators developed sophisticated tasks and statistical analyses. Applications of these methods seem to have allayed the fears of many practitioners (Brookshire, Ives, & Schulze, 1976). 5…”

The advantages of contingent valuation methods for benefit-cost analysis

“…Published papers employing these contingent claims games to acquire information have valued non-marketed goods as diverse as public television programming (Bohm, 1972); atmospheric visibility (Randall et al, 1974, Brookshire et al, 1976and Rowe et al, forthcoming); land-form alterations due to strip mining (Randall et al, 1978); air pollution-induced health effects (Loehman et al, forthcoming, and Brookshire, et al, forthcoming (a)); wildlife (Hammock and Brown, 1974, and Brookshire et al, forthcoming (b)); water pollution (Gramlich, 1977); preservation of river headwaters (O'Hanlon andSinden, 1978, andWyckoff 1976); urban infrastructure allocations for expenditures and taxes (Strauss and Hughes, 1976); and airplane safety (Jones-Lee, 1976). In addition, there are a number of as yet unpublished reports and papers have have used the technique to value atmospheric visibility (Horst and Crocker, 1978); power plant cooling towers (Currey et al, 1979); boomtown infrastructure (Cummings andSchulze, 1978, andd'Arge, 1979); urban public parks (Vaughn, 1974); odors (Loehman et al, 1978); and geothermal steam development in wilderness areas (Ben-David et al, 1977).…”

Stated preference methods and their applicability to environmental use and non-use valuations

“…The development of CVM in essentially its current form was due to Randall et al (1974). Its first published applications for valuation of environmental public goods seem to have been Hammack and Brown (1974), Brookshire et al (1976Brookshire et al ( , 1980, and Bishop and Heberlein (1979). While CVM has been widely used in environmental economics and beyond, its methodological development has occurred almost entirely within a tight circle of environmental economists who emphasize the unique features of environmental applications and have been selective in incorporating findings from research in marketing, cognitive psychology, and behavioral economics; see Carson et al (2001).…”