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

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

Report of a Conference

  • Author: Coppock, Rob; Hammond, P.Brett
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309041959
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309596053
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1990
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 244
  • Language: English
  • 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

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