Valuing complex natural resource systems : the case of the Lagoon of Venice / edited by Anna Alberini, Paolo Rosato, Margherita Turvani.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Valuing environmental resources using stated preferences / Anna Alberini and Alberto Longo -- Recreational demand, travel cost method and flow fixed costs / Edi Defranceso and Paolo Rosato -- The appraisal approach to valuing environmental resources / Edi Defrancesco, Paolo Rosato and Luca Rossetto -- Using contingent valuation to value the island of S. Erasmo in the lagoon of Venice / Anna Alberini, Paolo Rosato, Alberto Longo and Valentina Zanatta -- Evaluation of urban improvement on the island of the Venice lagoon: a spatially distributed hedonic-hierarchical approach / Paolo Rosato [and others] -- Valuing the implementation costs of ecosystem friendly clam fishing practices in the Venice lagoon: results from a conjoint choice survey / Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Luca Rossetto and Arianne de Blaeij -- The value of recreational sport fishing in the Lagoon of Venice / Valentina Zanatta [and others] -- What is the value of Brownfields? A review of possible approaches / Stefania Tonin -- Developer preferences for Brownfield policies / Anna Alberini [and others] -- Governing environmental restoration: institutions and industrial site clean-ups / Francesco Trombettea and Margherita Turvani.

"In complex natural resource systems, modifications or disruptions tend to affect many and diverse components of the ecological system, settlements and groups of people. This book uses the Lagoon of Venice - a unique natural resource, wildlife habitat, centre of cultural heritage and recreational site - as an example of one such system that has been heavily affected by human activities, including the harvesting of natural resources and industrial production." "Various market and non-market approaches placing a monetary value on environmental quality changes are then analysed by the contributors. They offer novel and creative applications of non-market valuation techniques for the Lagoon, and even outline the trade-offs that Lagoon users and parties interested in redeveloping contaminated sites are prepared to make between their own profits and policy offerings or demands."

"This book will appeal strongly to students, researchers and academics with an interest in natural resources valuation and management, environmental economics and applied benefit-cost analysis."--Jacket.