Valuation of the historic environment: The scope for using economic valuation evidence in the appraisal of heritage-related projects

Progress in Planning

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 131-175

  Provins, Allan ^a   Pearce, David ^b   Ozdemiroglu, Ece ^a   Mourato, Susana ^c   Morse Jones, Sian ^d  

^a Economics for the Environment Consulting (eftec) Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Benefits transfer; Economic valuation; Heritage; Historic environment; Value transfer

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; VALUATION;

EID: 44449094976     PISSN: 03059006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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