Nature's Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment

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. "4 Accounting for Renewable and Environmental Resources." Nature's Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999.

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TABLE 4-2 Methods for Environmental Valuation

			Techniques for estimation impacts
Pollution	Type of Effect	Impact	Hedonic Property	Hedonic Wages	Travel Cost	Contingent Valuation	Dose Response
Air pollution
Conventional pollutants: (total suspensed particulate [TSP], sulfur dioxide [SO₂], nitrous oxides [NO_x])	Respiratory illness	WLD; RAD; Medical suffering	L	L	X	_	_
	Respiratory illness	Death	L and _	_	X	X	_
	Aesthetics	Visual, sensory	_	L	X	_	X
	Recreation	Visits, especially to forests	L	X	_	_	X
	Materials	Maintenance/repair	X	X	Poss	Poss	_
	Vegetation	Crop losses	L	X	X	X	_
Water pollution
Conventional pollutants (e.g., biochemical oxygen demand [BOD])	Recreation (e.g., fishing, boating)	Visit behavior	L	X	_	_	X
	Commercial fisheries	Stock losses	X	X	X	X	_
	Aesthetics	Turbidity, odor, unsightliness	_	X	L	_	X