At the beginning of 2012, a small group of economists working on non-market
valuation, led by Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, decided to meet regularly to share their
knowledge on valuation methods. The main objectives of this workshop were (i) to
provide a forum for dissemination of high-quality papers presenting recent developments
in theoretical and empirical analyses in the field of non-market valuation and (ii)
to create a network of researchers (including worldwide experts) that would meet every
year.
WONV quickly became an annual international workshop. Every year, about 30
researchers meet in a different European city. Both theoretical and applied papers
dealing with stated preference methods (e.g., contingent valuation, choice experiments)
and revealed preference methods (e.g., travel cost method, hedonic pricing method) are
presented. Empirical applications mainly deal with environmental and resource economics
but applications to other domains (e.g., health, agriculture) are welcome

• Selected papers from the 2015 Workshop on Non-market Valuation (WONV) in Nancy