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• Champ, Patricia A., Kevin Boyle, and Thomas C. Brown, editors. 2003. A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation. Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, 576 pages.
  
  
• Brown, Thomas C., Icek Ajzen, and Daniel Hrubes. 2003. Further Tests of Entreaties to Avoid Hypothetical Bias in Referendum Contingent Valuation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 46(2): 353-361.
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• Champ, Patricia A., Nicholas E. Flores, Thomas C. Brown, and James Chivers. 2002. Contingent Valuation and Incentives. Land Economics 78(4): 591-604.
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• Brown, Thomas C., Dawn Nannini, Robert Gorter, Paul Bell, and George L. Peterson. 2002. Judged seriousness of environmental losses: reliability and cause of loss. Ecological Economics 42(3): 479-491.
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• Patterson, M. E., & Williams, D. R. 2002. Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data: Hermeneutic Principles, Methods and Case Examples (Advances in Tourism Applications Series). Champaign IL, Sagamore Publishing, Inc. 137p. (Currently available electronically; scheduled for Summer 2002 release).
   
• Champ, Patricia A. and Richard C. Bishop. 2001. Donation Payment Mechanisms and Contingent Valuation: An Empirical Study of Hypothetical Bias. Environmental and Resource Economics 19:383-402.
  
  
• Chuenpagdee, Ratana, Jack L. Knetsch, and Thomas C. Brown. 2001. Coastal Management Using Public Judgments, Importance Scales, and Predetermined Schedule. Coastal Management 29:253-270.
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• Chuenpagdee, Ratana, Jack L. Knetsch, and Thomas C. Brown. 2001. Environmental Damage Schedules: Community Judgments of Importance and Assessments of Losses. Land Economics 77(1): 1-11.
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• Ajzen, Icek, Lori H. Rosenthal, and Thomas C. Brown. 2000. Effects of Perceived Fairness on Willingness to Pay. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 30(12): 2439-2450.
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• Brown, Thomas C., and Robin Gregory. 1999. Why the WTA--WTP Disparity Matters. Ecological Economics 28:323-335.
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• Loomis, John, Kerri Traynor, and Thomas Brown. 1999. Trichotomous Choice: A Possible Solution to Dual Response Objectives in Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Questions. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 24(2):572-583.
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• Champ, P.A., and J. Loomis.  1998.  Testing the Robustness of WTA Estimates using the Method of Paired Comparison.  Environmental and Resource Economics 12:375-386.
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• Loomis, J., G. Peterson, P. Champ, T. Brown and B. Lucero.  1998.  Paired Comparison Estimates of Willingness to Accept Versus Contingent Valuation Estimates of Willingness to Pay. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 35:501-515.
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• Patterson, M. E., & Williams, D. R. 1998. Paradigms and problems: The practice of social science in natural resource management. Society and Natural Resources 11:279-295.
  
  
• Peterson, George L., and Thomas C. Brown. 1998. Economic Valuation by the Method of Paired Comparison, with Emphasis on Tests of the Transitivity Axiom. Land Economics 74(2):240-261.
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• Rutherford, Murray B., Jack L. Knetsch, and Thomas C. Brown. 1998. Assessing Environmental Losses: Judgments of Importance and Damage Schedules. Harvard Environmental Law Review 22(1):51-101.
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• Boyle, K. J., H. F. MacDonald, H. Cheng, D. W. McCollum.  1998.  Bid Design and Yea Saying in Single-Bounded, Dichotomous-Choice Contingent Valuation Questions. Land Economics, 74(1):49-64.
  
  
• Loomis, John B.; Thomas C. Brown; Beatrice Lucero; and George L. Peterson. 1997. Evaluating the Validity of the Dichotomous Choice Question Format in Contingent Valuation. Environmental and Resource Economics 10:109-123.
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• Champ, P.A., R.C. Bishop, T.C. Brown, and D.W. McCollum.  1997.  Using Donation Mechanisms to Value Nonuse Benefits from Public Goods. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 33(2):151-162.
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• Boyle, K. J., F. R. Johnson, D. W. McCollum.  1997.  Anchoring and Adjustment in Single-Bounded Contingent-Valuation Questions. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79(5):1495-1500.
  
  
• Poe, G.L., M.P. Welsh, and P.A. Champ.  1997.  Measuring the Differences in Mean Willingness to Pay when Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Responses are Not Independent. Land Economics 73(2):255-67.
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• Gregory, Robin, Thomas C. Brown, and Jack L. Knetsch. 1996. Valuing Risks to the Environment. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 545(May):54-63.
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• Loomis, John, Thomas Brown, Beatrice Lucero, and George Peterson. 1996. Improving Validity Experiments of Contingent Valuation Methods: Results of Efforts to Reduce the Disparity of Hypothetical and Actual Willingness to Pay. Land Economics. 72(4):450-461.
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• Peterson, George L.; Brown, Thomas C. 1996. Accounting for non-market values for sustainable ecosystem management. The Finnish Journal of Business Economics. 1: 48-64.
  
  
• Brown, Thomas C., Susan C. Barro, Michael J. Manfredo, and George L. Peterson. 1995. Does better information about the good avoid the embedding effect? Journal of Environmental Management 44:1-10.
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• Brown, Thomas C., Patricia A. Champ, Richard C. Bishop, and Daniel W. McCollum. 1996. Which Response Format Reveals the Truth about Donations to a Public Good? Land Economics 72(2):152-166.
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• Gregory, Robin, Sara Lichtenstein, Thomas C. Brown, George Peterson, and Paul Slovic. 1995. How Precise Are Monetary Representations of Environmental Improvements? Land Economics 71(4):462-473.
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• Brown, Thomas C., George L. Peterson, and Bruce E. Tonn. 1995. The Values Jury to Aid Natural Resource Decisions. Land Economics 71(2):250-260.
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• Ajzen, Icek, Thomas C. Brown, and Lori H. Rosenthal. 1995. Information Bias in Contingent Valuation: Effects of Personal Relevance, Quality of Information, and Motivational Orientation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 30:43-57.
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• Brown, Thomas C., and John W. Duffield. 1995. Testing Part-Whole Valuation Effects in Contingent Valuation of Instream Flow Protection. Water Resources Research 31(9):2341-2352.
  
  
• Peterson, G, Langner, L., Brown, T. 1993. Pricing of Multiple Use Forest Values in Transition from Command Economy to the Market System. Index 70845. Moscow ®Ecology¯ ISSN 0024--1113. Forest Economy 2:17-22. (Russian journal, published in Russian language)
  
  
• Boyce, Rebecca R., Thomas C. Brown, Gary D. McClelland, George L. Peterson, and William D. Schulze (Alphabetical order). 1992. An experimental examination of intrinsic values as a source for the WTA-WTP disparity. American Economic Review 82(5):1366-1373.
  
  
• Peterson, George L., Beverly S. Driver, and Robin Gregory, (eds.). 1988. Public amenity resource valuation: integrating economics with other disciplines. Venture Press, University Park, PA. 260 pp.
  
  
• Peterson, G. L. and Alan Randall (eds.). 1984. Valuation of wildland resource benefits. Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. 272 pp.

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