Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making

Report of a Conference

Cover
Front Matter
Executive Summary
1. Introduction
2. The Making of Cruel Choices
3. The Politics of Benefit-Cost Analysis
4. Benefit-Cost Analysis as a Source of Information About Welfare
5. Comparing Values in Environmental Policies: Moral Issues and Moral Arguments
6. Environmental Policy Making: Act Now or Wait for More Information?
7. Choice Under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved
8. Conclusions
Appendix: Setting National Standards for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From Primary Copper Shelters