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Contingent Valuation, Transport Safety and the Value of Life

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Nathalie G. Schwab Christe

    1. Institute for Regional and Economic Research (IRER), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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  2. Nils C. Soguel

    1. Institute for Regional and Economic Research (IRER), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Studies in Risk and Uncertainty (SIRU, volume 7)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Introduction

    • Nils C. Soguel
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Valuation of Human Costs by the Contingent Method: The Swiss Experience

    • Nathalie G. Schwab Christe
    Pages 19-43

  4. Assessing the Value of Traffic Safety Using the Contingent Valuation Technique: The Danish Survey

    • Kristian Kidholm
    Pages 45-61

  5. Valuing the Benefits of Reducing the Risk of Non-Fatal Road Injuries: The Swedish Experience

    • Ulf Persson, Anna Lugnér Norinder, Marianne Svensson
    Pages 63-83

  6. Reference Values for Human Life: An Econometric Analysis of a Contingent Valuation in France

    • Brigitte Desaigues, Ari Rabl
    Pages 85-112

  7. Why Did Two Theoretically Equivalent Methods Produce Two Very Different Values?

    • Michael W. Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes, Angela Robinson
    Pages 113-136

  8. Are Preferences for Safety Too Imprecise for Contingent Valuation?

    • W. Richard Dubourg
    Pages 137-156

  9. Preference-Based Values of Safety for Public Transport Modes

    • Michael W. Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes
    Pages 157-169

  10. The Automobile Risk Metric for Valuing Health Risks

    • W. Kip Viscusi
    Pages 171-193
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Over the past two decades, economic theory has extended its field of application to non-market goods such as environmental resources and health. Although it is impossible to assign a price to these goods on the basis of market mechanisms alone, the fact that they have no price does not mean that they have no value. One technique in which economists have shown a marked interest is the contingent valuation method (CVM), which has mainly been used to assign a monetary value to environmental goods. It was first applied to natural resources used for recreational purposes. CVM has been applied to health only recently, so that studies in this field are relatively more scarce than those dealing with the environment, although several valuation methodology surveys are available.
There has hitherto been no book which has drawn together and analyzed recent contingent valuations in the field of transport accidents. Contingent Valuation, Transport Safety and the Value of Life provides an overview of the experiments conducted in Europe (Denmark, France, the U.K., Sweden and Switzerland). While a number of contributions are critical, others show how the estimates obtained in the area of road transport can be used to assess the adverse health effects of other causes, such as public transport accidents or air pollution.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Regional and Economic Research (IRER), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Nathalie G. Schwab Christe, Nils C. Soguel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contingent Valuation, Transport Safety and the Value of Life

  • Editors: Nathalie G. Schwab Christe, Nils C. Soguel

  • Series Title: Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0665-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9578-2Published: 31 May 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4291-8Published: 04 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0665-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0926-972X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 193

  • Topics: Labor Economics, Environmental Economics, Environmental Management

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