摘要：The measurement of passive use values has become an important element of environmental economics over the past decade. Damage assessment cases in the U.S. and Canada have prompted considerable research activity in this area, yet the topic is quite controversial and debate over the theory and measurement of passive use values has permeated the economics profession (eg. Hanemann, 1994; Diamond and Hausman, 1994). Much of the controversy surrounds the use of the contingent valuation method (CV) in eliciting passive use values and the various “issues” that arise when this technique is employed. There is a substantial literature on the CV method (eg. Mitchell and Carson, 1989; Natural Resource Damage Assessment, 1994) and its advantages and disadvantages. We do not review this literature here, rather we explore the use of another stated preference approach for measuring passive use values, the choice experiment, and compare it to CV.
