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Hanley is with the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh; Kirkpatrick and Simpson are with the Department of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Scotland; and Oglethorpe is with the Rural Resource Management Department, Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, Scotland. The first sections of this article benefited greatly from Hanley’s involvement in the Rural Amenities Project, undertaken by the OECD’s Rural Development Programme. The empirical section of this article is based on work funded by Scottish Natural Heritage. The authors are grateful for this finding, and for research assistance from Louise Scott. We are also grateful to Ian Bateman, and to two anonymous referees, for helpful comments

1 On the other hand, OECD governments also make capita] grants available to polluters to reduce abatement costs (and emission levels) over the longer run (Opschoor and Vos 1989).