Valuing Cultural Heritage : Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts

Navrud, Ståle (EDT)/ Ready, Richard C. (EDT)

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd（2002/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781840640793
• DDC分類 338.4336369

Full Description

What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovative book attempts to answer these important questions by exploring how non-market valuation techniques - used extensively in environmental economics - can be applied to cultural heritage.The book includes twelve comprehensive case studies that estimate public values for a diverse set of cultural goods, including English cathedrals, Bulgarian monasteries, rock paintings in Canada, statues in the US, and a medieval city in Africa. The authors demonstrate the potential utility of these techniques, and highlight the important social values that cultural heritage can generate. Given limited resources, such studies can help set priorities and aid the decision making process in terms of their preservation, restoration and use. The authors conclude by reviewing the majority of cultural valuation studies done to date, and draw some general conclusions about the results achieved and the potential benefits, as well as the limitations, of valuing these types of goods.

This highly original book will be of great use and interest to academics in the fields of environmental, resource, and cultural economics, as well as NGOs and policymakers involved in cultural heritage at the national, international and global level.

Contents

Contents

Preface

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Why value cultural heritage?
Richard C. Ready and Ståle Navrud

2 Methods for valuing cultural heritage
Richard C. Ready and Ståle Navrud

PART II CASE STUDIES
3 Social costs and benefits of preserving and restoring the Nidaros Cathedral
Ståle Navrud and Jon Strand

4 Northumbria: castles, cathedrals and towns
Guy Garrod and Kenneth G. Willis

5 Valuing the impacts of air pollution on Lincoln Cathedral
Marilena Pollicino and David Maddison

6 Preserving cultural heritage in transition economies: a contingent valuation study of Bulgarian monasteries
Susana Mourato, Andreas Kontoleon and Alexi Danchev

7 Valuing different road options for Stonehenge
David Maddisson and Susana Mourato

8 The contribution of aboriginal rock paintings to wilderness recreation values in North America
Peter Boxall, Jeffrey Englin and Wiktor Adamowicz

9 Economic benefits to foreigners visiting Morocco accruing from the rehabilitation of the Fes Medina
Richard T. Carson, Robert C. Mitchell and Michael B. Conaway

10 Component and temporal value reliability in cultural goods: the case of Roman Imperial remains near Naples
Patrizia Riganti and Kenneth G. Willis

11 Valuing reduced acid deposition injuries to cultural resources: marble monuments in Washington, D.C.
Edward R. Morey, Kathleen Greer Rossmann, Lauraine G. Chestnut and Shannon Ragland

12 Valuing cultural services in Italian museums: a contingent valuation study
Marina Bravi, Riccardo Scarpa and Gemma Sirchia

13 A contingent valuation study of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen
Trine Bille

14 Individual preferences and allocation mechanisms for a cultural public good: "Napoli Musei Aperti"
Walter Santagata and Giovanni Signorello

PART III REVIEW OF STUDIES
15 Review of existing studies, their policy use and future research needs
David Pearce, Susana Mourato, Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready

Index