Ecosystem services are the specific results of ecosystem processes that either directly sustain
or enhance human life (as does natural protection from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays) …

Truncated Poisson and truncated negative binomial count data models, as well as standard
count data models, OLS, nonlinear normal, and truncated nonlinear normal MLE were used …

The estimation of willingness to pay (WTP) or willingness to accept (WTA) compensation
using the contingent valua-tion method (CVM) has been increasingly performed with the …

The economic value of rare, threatened and endangered species to citizens of the USA has
been measured using the contingent valuation method for 18 different species. Annual …

… , Berkeley; John Loomis is an associate professor of environmental studies and ag¡ … They
benefitted greatly from comments by Richard Carson, John Stoll, and others attending the W-…

… Young, author of the 2005 edition, has been joined for this new edition by John B. Loomis,
who brings additional expertise on ecosystem services and the environmental economics of …

Wilderness resource economics has tradi-tionally focused on the benefits and costs of recreation
use. Several studies have esti-mated aspects of the demand for wilderness recreation (…

The book demonstrates to recreation resource planners and managers how to apply the
benefit-cost approach to recreation economic decisions, in particular, how to make outdoor …

This paper presents a simple computational method for measuring the difference of independent
empirical distributions estimated by bootstrapping or other resampling approaches. …

In the Total Economic Value (TEV) framework, ecosystems may generate output values (the
values generated in the current state of the ecosystem, for example food production, climate …