In stated preference valuation of farmland preservation, respondents are often told that preservation will occur within a given jurisdictional scale—e.g., community, state, county—but do not know the specific location of parcels in question. Hence, welfare estimates may be available for different scales and/or states, providing numerous avenues for benefit transfer. This paper provides a system...

For policy makers, regulators and natural resource managers, the resources necessary for original empirical resource valuations are often unavailable. A common alternative to original valuation studies is the practice of benefit transfer—the use of an empirical value estimate or estimates from a previous study or studies for application in a similar context. In order to reduce the error inheren...

Meta-analysis has increasingly been used to synthesise the environmental valuation literature, but only a few test the use of these analyses for benefit transfer. These are typically based on national studies only. However, meta-analyses of valuation studies across countries are a potentially powerful tool for benefit transfer, especially for environmental goods where the domestic literature is...

A perennial problem in environmental resource management is targeting an efficient level of resource provision that maximizes societal well-being. Such management requires knowledge of both costs and benefits associated with varying management options. This paper illustrates the challenge of estimating the benefits of an improvement in a marine resource when secondary data must be used, and whe...

The transfer of knowledge and inventions from universities to society has a twofold objective: the business community should be advanced by innovations, benefit. Economic success is relatively easy measure (e.g., increased sales), but social benefits are not. Thus, we presented matrix 10 principles for assessment value technologies. With this understanding, technology processes can designed lea...

Benefit transfer is a non-market valuation method that offers quick and cost effective alternative to costly methods for assessing the economic value of environmental goods policies in tourism. This paper assesses validity benefits adapt climate change impacts across tourist destinations. To do so, discrete choice experiment designed conducted simultaneously seven island destinations with simil...