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Author : George Van Houtven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (777 download)
Download or read book When is a life too costly to save? : evidence from U.S. environmental regulations written by George Van Houtven and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Van Houtven
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book When is a Life Too Costly to Save? written by George Van Houtven and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the amounts spent to save a life under U.S. regulations acceptable to U.S. citizens? Or should those amounts be made more explicit to encourage public debate on health and safety regulation? To the second question, the authors say, "Yes."
Author : Wallace E. Oates
Publisher : Resources for the Future
ISBN 13 : 9780915707966
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management written by Wallace E. Oates and published by Resources for the Future. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RFF University Fellow Wallace Oates has assembled much of RFF's best work in a new volume that provides teachers and students, the public policy community, and informed readers with a broader, deeper perspective on natural resources and the environment. This treasure trove of balanced and authoritative analysis belongs on the bookshelf of any individual or institution concerned about environmental policy.
Author : Robert N. Stavins
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788972066
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Economics of the Environment written by Robert N. Stavins and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics of the Environment, Seventh Edition is a compendium of the best, most timely articles by a dream team of environmental economists, together with an original introductory chapter by the editor. Now in its seventh edition, Economics of the Environment serves as a valuable supplement to environmental economics text books and as a stand-alone reference book of key, up-to-date readings from the field. Edited by Robert N. Stavins, the book covers the core areas of environmental economics courses as taught around the world; and the included authors are the top scholars in the field. Overall, more than half of the chapters are new to this edition while the rest have remained seminal works.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Role of Science in Regulatory Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book THE Role of Science in Regulatory Reform, Serial No. 111-23, April 30, 2009, 111-1 Hearing, * written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Myrick Freeman III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136522417
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values written by A. Myrick Freeman III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : A. Myrick Freeman
Publisher : Resources for the Future
ISBN 13 : 9781891853623
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (536 download)
Download or read book The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values written by A. Myrick Freeman and published by Resources for the Future. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-market valuation is becoming increasingly accepted as an evaluative tool of economics related to environmental and resource protection. Freeman (economics, Bowdoin College) presents an overview of the literature, introducing the principal methods and techniques of resource valuation. Chapters cover the measurement of welfare changes, revealed and stated preference models, nonuse models, aggregation of values across time, environmental quality as factor input, longevity and health valuation, property value models, hedonic wage models, and recreational uses of natural resource systems. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Uma Subramanian
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Choices Between Lifesaving Programs how Important are Lives Saved? written by Uma Subramanian and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: August 1995 - Do funding priorities for health and safety policies reflect irrational fears? the disaster of the month - rather than address more fundamental problems? A thousand people were surveyed to gauge popular feelings about funding choices between environmental and public health programs. In developing and industrial countries alike, there is concern that health and safety policy may respond to irrational fears - to the disaster of the month - rather than address more fundamental problems. In the United States, for example, some policymakers say the public worries about trivial risks while ignoring larger ones and that funding priorities reflect this view. Many public health programs with a low cost per life saved are underfunded, for example, while many environmental regulations with a high cost per life saved are issued each year. Does the existing allocation of resources reflect people's preoccupation with the qualitative aspects of risks, to the exclusion of quantitative factors (lives saved)? Or can observed differences in the cost per life saved of environmental and public health programs be explained by the way the two sets of programs are funded? Cropper and Subramanian examine the preferences of U.S. citizens for health and safety programs. They confronted a random sample of 1,000 U.S. adults with choices between environmental health and public health programs, to see which they would choose. The authors then examined what factors (qualitative and quantitative) seem to influence these choices. Respondents were asked about pairs of programs, among them: smoking education or industrial pollution control programs, industrial pollution control or pneumonia vaccine programs, radon eradication or a program to ban smoking in the workplace, and radon eradication or programs to ban pesticides. The survey results, they feel, have implications beyond the United States. They find that, while qualitative aspects of the life-saving programs are statistically significant in explaining people's choices among them, lives saved matter, too. Indeed, for the median respondent in the survey, the rate of substitution between most qualitative risk characteristics and lives saved is inelastic. But for a sizable minority of respondents, choice among programs appears to be insensitive to lives saved. The interesting question for public policy is what role the latter group plays in the regulatory process. This paper - a joint product of the Environment, Infrastructure, and Agriculture Division, Policy Research Department, and the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Asia Technical Department - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to see what can be learned about efficient environmental policy by examining the U.S. experience with environmental regulation. The authors may be contacted at mcropper@@worldbank.org or usubramanian@@worldbank.org.
Author : David R. Holtgrave
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489918787
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs written by David R. Holtgrave and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If resources for HIV prevention efforts were truly unlimited, then this book would be en tirely unnecessary. In a world with limitless support for HIV prevention activities, one would simply implement all effective (or potentially effective) programs without regard to expense. We would do everything useful to prevent the further spread of the virus that has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States and millions of lives worldwide. Unfortunately, funding for HIV prevention programs is limited. Even though the amount of available funding may seem quite large (especially in the United States), it is still fixed and not sufficient to meet all needs for such programs. This was very well illustrated in the summer of 1997 when over 500 community-based organizations applied for a combined total of $18 million of HIV prevention funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Less than one-fifth ofthese organizations received support via this funding mechanism. Hence, although $18 million may seem like a large amount of money at first blush, it is not enough to meet all of the prevention needs that could be addressed by these community-based organizations.
Author : Paul Professor Portney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136524797
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Public Policies for Environmental Protection written by Paul Professor Portney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Public Policies for Environmental Protection contributed significantly to the incorporation of economic analysis in the study of environmental policy. Fully revised to account for changes in the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework of environmental policy, the second edition features updated chapters on the EPA and federal regulation, air and water pollution policy, and hazardous and toxic substances. It includes entirely new chapters on market-based environmental policies, global climate change, solid waste, and, for the first time, coverage of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Portney, Stavins, and their contributors provide an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, industry professionals, and journalists---anyone who needs up-to-date information on U.S. environmental policy. With their careful explanation of policy alternatives, the authors provide an ideal book for students in courses about environmental economics or environmental politics.
Author : Paul R. Portney
Publisher : Resources for the Future
ISBN 13 : 9781891853036
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Public Policies for Environmental Protection written by Paul R. Portney and published by Resources for the Future. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental text for courses in environmental economics, environmental science, and environmental politics. Writing style is nontechnical and accessible. This second edition is revised to account for changes in the institutional, legal, and regulatory framework of environmental policy, with updated chapters on EPA and federal regulation, air and water pollution policy, and hazardous and toxic substances. There are new chapters on market-based environmental policies, global climate change, and solid waste. Portney is president and senior fellow of Resources for the Future. Stavins is professor of business and government and faculty chair of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Richard C. Porter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113652438X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Waste written by Richard C. Porter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise, engaging, and provocative work, Richard Porter introduces readers to the economic tools that can be applied to problems involved in handling a diverse range of waste products from business and households. Emphasizing the impossibility of achieving a zero-risk environment, Porter focuses on the choices that apply in real world decisions about waste. Acknowledging that effective waste policy integrates knowledge from several disciplines, Porter focuses on the use of economic analysis to reveal the costs of different policies and therefore how much can be done to meet goals to protect human health and the environment. With abundant examples, he considers subjects such as landfills, incineration, and illegal disposal. He discusses the international trade in waste, the costs and benefits of recycling, and special topics such as hazardous materials, Superfund, and nuclear waste. While making clear his belief that not every form of waste presents the same amount of risk, Porter stresses the need for open-minded approaches to developing new policies. For students, policymakers, and general readers, he provides insight and accessibility to a subject that others might leave out-of-sight, out-of-mind, or buried under an impenetrable prose of statistics and jargon.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428907637
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Assigning Values to Life written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Professor Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136524517
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Toward Safer Food written by Sandra Professor Hoffmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, a National Academy of Sciences panel called for an integrated, risk-based food safety system. This goal is widely embraced, but there has been little advance in thinking about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system- wide risk analysis framework. Such a framework is the essential scientific basis for better priority setting and resource allocation to improve food safety. Sandra Hoffmann and Michael Taylor bring together leading scientists, risk analysts, and economists, as well as experienced regulators and policy analysts, to better define the priority setting problem and focus on the scientific and intellectual resources available to construct a risk analysis framework for improving food safety. Toward Safer Food provides a common starting point for discussions about how to construct this framework. The book includes a multi-disciplinary introduction to the existing data, research, and methodological and conceptual approaches on which a system-wide risk analysis framework must draw. It also recognizes that efforts to improve food safety will be influenced by the current institutional context, and provides an overview of the ways in which food safety law and administration affect priority setting. Hoffman and Taylor intend their book to be accessible to people from a wide variety of backgrounds. At the same time, they retain the core conceptual sophistication needed to understand the challenges that are inherent in improving food safety. The editors hope that this book will help the U.S. move beyond a call for an integrated, risk-based system toward its actual construction.
Author : Lawrence S. Rothenberg
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483371158
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Environmental Choices written by Lawrence S. Rothenberg and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a federal system, government agencies and regulatory policies can be fractured -- even at odds with each other. National actors share power with their counterparts in states and localities, as do presidents with Congressional leaders, and bureaucrats with judges. Understanding the broad economic and political contexts of environmental policymaking illuminates the motivations behind policy choices of various interested parties, from the National Park Service and the EPA to environmental activists and members of Congress. Rothenberg utilizes basic economic ideas to provide, not only a fresh look at how the U.S. deals with environmental ills, but a way of thinking about policy making in general.
Author : Wayne Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351148672
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Spatial Aspects of Environmental Policy written by Wayne Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a recent explosion of research incorporating a spatial dimension in environmental and natural resource economics, where the spatial aspects of human behaviour or the natural environment make a crucial difference in the analysis and policy response to the problem. Much of this research has been driven by the growing availability of spatially explicit social science data and the development of tools and methodological advances to use these data. Collected in this volume are 24 key articles considering the reasons for spatial variation in policies, due to either efficiency or equity considerations, and the consequences of that spatial variation for both environmental and economic outcomes. These articles demonstrate that the failure to address spatial issues in the analysis can create two problems: (1) the analysis provides a poor basis for predicting actual behaviour that is specifically based upon spatial considerations, and (2) the analysis fails to provide a basis for designing spatially targeted policies that could lead to more efficient outcomes.
