To help the civil servants in both central and local governments in Taiwan operating administrative works smoothly under a new digitalized system launched in 1994, a series of courses related to information technology were offered free to them annually by the central governments. However, due to the budget deficit in recent years, the government is considering decreasing or completely canceling...

This paper offers an ecologically-based view of land and land value, buildin,0 upon the muftiproducr nature of e&systems and upon landscape ecology. The paper qu&.ions the ability of markets to create optimal landscap&‘even when traditionhl methods of internalizing externalities are appli&d, ;and concludes that-&emptin g a tomplere valuation of’ ecosystem; is’ quixoric: Achieving sustainable la...

Planners are being called on to prioritize marine shorelines for conservation status and restoration action. This study documents an approach to determining the management strategy most likely to succeed based on current conditions at local and landscape scales. The conceptual framework based in restoration ecology pairs appropriate restoration strategies with sites based on the likelihood of p...

This paper estimates the monetary value of providing informal care by means of a well-being valuation method. This is done by assessing the compensating variation necessary to maintain the same level of well-being after an informal caregiver provides an extra hour of informal care. The informal caregiver's well-being is proxied by the answer to two subjective well-being questions that were pose...

Abstract: Recently, we proposed a new method for representing and solving decision problems based on the framework of valuation-based systems. The new representation is called a valuation network, and the new solution method is called a fusion algorithm. In this paper, we compare valuation networks to decision trees and influence diagrams. We also compare the fusion algorithm to the backward re...

One of the most widely appreciated problems of contingent valuation is the potential manipulability of the method, thus subjecting it to possible strategic bias. This paper shows that under usual conditions this problem also holds for market-based methods, such as travel cost and hedonic pricing. However, not all formats of these valuation methods are manipulable. This paper finds positive resu...

We studied here on some simple examples the interaction between valuation family, parameters and ranking result. The ranking method studied is based upon the idea of associating with a fuzzy number a scalar value, its valuation, and using this valuation to compare and order fuzzy numbers. The valuation method considered was introduced initially by the Yager and Filev. This valuation consists in...

...................................................................................... 5 I. Environmental values and valuation approaches........... 7 1. The economic concept of environmental value .................... 7 2. Willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept ...................... 8 3. Classifying environmental values ......................................... 9 4. Valuation approaches...