TY - BOOK AU - Santos, Jose Manuel TI - Economic valuation of landscape change: theory and policies for land use and conservation SN - 9781858987811 U1 - 333.7316 PY - 1998/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar KW - Landscape protection-Economic aspects-Great Britain N1 - 1.Landscape Change, Conservation Policy and Policy Evaluation -- 2.Valuation and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Landscape Change -- 3.Landscape Values for Landscape Conservation Decision-Making -- 4.Valuing Landscape Change I: Theory and the Multi-Attribute Issue -- 5.Valuing Landscape Change II: Survey and Estimation Issues -- 6.Costs of Landscape Conservation -- 7.Cost-Benefit Analysis of Landscape Change -- 8.Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Geres Areas: Presenting the Case-Studies -- 9.A Study of the Landscape Perceptions and Preferences of Visitors to the Peneda-Geres National Park -- 10.CVM Surveys and Summary Statistics of Visitors to the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Geres Areas -- 11.Willingness-to-Pay for Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Geres Areas -- 12.The Costs of Landscape Conservation in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Geres Areas -- 13.Cost-Benefit Analysis of Conservation Schemes in the Pennine Dales and Peneda-Geres Areas -- 14.Comparisons between Case-Studies and Policy Implications -- 15.Methodological Appraisal and Conclusions -- 16.Validity, Reliability and Transferability of CVM Landscape Benefit Estimates: A Meta-Analysis -- 17.Valuation and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Attribute Change: Theoretical and Methodological Conclusions N2 - The increase in landscape degradation in the last decades has resulted in a growing public concern for policies to conserve the countryside. This book presents theories of valuation and economic welfare which are applied to policies to conserve the landscape ER -