Environmental valuation in South Asia / edited by A.K. Enamul Haque, M.N. Murty, and Priya Shyamsundar.

"Provides an overview of different environmental problems in South Asia and examines how economic valuation techniques can be used to assess these problems"--Provided by publisher

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Other Authors: Haque, A. K. Enamul, Murty, M. N. (Maddipati Narasimha), 1942-, Shyamsundar, Priya, 1964-
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Appendices; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1. About the book; 1.2. Environmental valuation in South Asia; 1.3. Valuation methods; 1.4. Implementing full cost pricing in agrarian settings; 1.5. Accounting for linked ecological and social systems; 1.6. Improved health outcomes; 1.7. Micro to macro: valuation and better measures of sustainable development; 1.8. Increasing revenues through better valuation; 1.9. Challenges to environmental valuation in developing countries; References 
505 8 |a 2 Environmental Valuation: A Review of Methods2.1. Environmental resources and economic valuation; 2.2. Environmental values; 2.3. Measuring environmental values and policy changes; 2.4. Valuation methods; 2.4.1. Production function approaches; 2.4.2. The household health production function model; 2.4.3. Travel cost methods; 2.4.4. Hedonic price methods; 2.4.5. Hedonic property value model; 2.4.6. Hedonic wage model; 2.4.7. Contingent valuation; 2.5. Conclusion; References; 3 Valuing the Environment as a Production Input; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Production function 
505 8 |a 3.2.1. Variables and assumptions3.2.2. Deriving the input demand function; 3.2.3. Change in profit, without and with input adjustment; 3.2.4. Magnitude of the change in profit; 3.3. Cost function; 3.3.1. Definition and characteristics; 3.3.2. Cost function for a production function with two variable inputs; 3.3.3. Deriving the marginal cost function; 3.3.4. Change in profit, without and with output adjustment; 3.3.5. Magnitude of the change in profit; 3.4. Profit Function; 3.4.1. Definition; 3.4.2. Deriving the output supply and profit functions; 3.4.3. Change in profit 
505 8 |a 3.5. Empirical implications3.5.1. Three types of individual functions -- input demand, marginal cost (or output supply), and profit -- can be used to estimate the change in profit resulting from an environmental change; 3.5.2. Use of full information requires estimating a system of equations, not just a single one; 3.5.3. Endogeneity: a potential source of bias in estimating all three functions, especially the production function; 3.5.4. Change in revenue: a biased measure of change in profit; 3.5.5. Change in cost: a biased measure of change in profit 
505 8 |a 3.6. Implications of relaxing key assumptions3.6.1. Multiple firms; 3.6.2. Noncompetitive markets; 3.6.3. Market distortions; 3.6.4. Missing markets and household production; 3.6.5. Risk; 3.6.6. Fixed inputs; 3.6.7. Multiple outputs; 3.6.8 Multiple inputs; 3.6.9. Nonconvexities; 3.7. Example: rainfall and rice in India; 3.7.1. Data; 3.7.2. Production function; 3.7.3. Profit function; References; 4 Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers?: The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Study area; 4.3. Data; 4.4. Homogeneity of paddy villages 
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