I always wanted to be a "worldwide expert"

And now, humbly, I am:

[Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values - A Guide for Researchers and Practioners, ed. by Johnston, Rolfe, Rosenberger, & Brouwer, forthcoming 2015] provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners. Early chapters provide accessible introductory materials suitable for non-economists. These chapters also detail how benefit transfer is used within the policy process. Later chapters cover more advanced topics suited to valuation researchers, graduate students and those with similar knowledge of economic and statistical theory and methods. This book provides the most complete coverage of environmental benefit transfer methods available in a single location.

The book targets a wide audience, including undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners in economics and other disciplines looking for a one-stop handbook covering benefit transfer topics and those who wish to apply or evaluate benefit transfer methods. It is designed for those both with and without training in economics

via www.springer.com

Here is my evidence (emphasis added):

• The book will provide a unique, one-stop reference on contemporary benefit transfer methods, debates, applications, challenges and frontiers
• The book will represent the only comprehensive handbook for benefit or value transfer
• With chapters written by worldwide experts, the handbook will provide a broader purview on methods and perspectives than any existing authored or edited volume
• The handbook will be designed for direct relevance among academics, students and practitioners
• The book will be designed to bridge the gap between rigorous transfer methods in the academic literature an those applied by non-academic practitioners

I wrote, with Ash Morgan and Bill Huth, "Benefit Transfers with the Contingent Valuation Method." We received the invitation to write a chapter back in January 2012 and reviews of our first draft in September 2012. This shows how long these projects take. So, congrats to the editors!

I just saw today the final table of contents and the book looks great. It is heavy on stated preference methods and meta-analysis.