Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making
Report of a Conference
Published on 1. January 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-0-309-04195-9 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-309-04195-9 (9780309041959)
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Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making
Report of a Conference
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Persons
P.Brett Hammond and Rob Coppock, Editors, Commitssion on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council
Content
1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1. Introduction; 4 2. The Making of Cruel Choices; 5 3. The Politics of Benefit-Cost Analysis; 6 4. Benefit-Cost Analysis as a Source of Information About Welfare; 7 5. Comparing Values in Environmental Policies: Moral Issues and Moral Arguments; 8 6. Environmental Policy Making: Act Now or Wait for More Information?; 9 7. Choice Under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved; 10 8. Conclusions; 11 Appendix: Setting National Standards for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From Primary Copper Shelters