MEASURING NON‐USE VALUE OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS USING THE CONTINGENT VALUATION METHOD: PROBLEMS OF INFORMATION AND COGNITION AND THE APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN METHODS
作者:
W. George Hutchinson,
Susan M. Chilton,
John Davis,
期刊:
Journal of Agricultural Economics
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 46,
issue 1
页码: 97-112
ISSN:0021-857X
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1995.tb00755.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Much interest now focuses on the use of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) to assess non‐use value of environmental goods. The paper reviews recent literature and highlights particular problems of information provision and respondent knowledge, comprehension and cognition. These must be dealt with by economists in designing CVM surveys for eliciting non‐use values. Cognitive Questionnaire Design Methods are presented which invoke concepts from psychology and tools from cognitive survey design (focus groups and verbal reports) to reduce a complex environmental good into a meaningful commodity that can be valued by respondents in a contingent market. This process is illustrated with examples from the authors' own research valuing alternative afforestation program
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