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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Change
Per-Olov Johansson
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Paperback. An advanced text in applied welfare economics and its application to environmental economics, providing detailed rules for the economic assessment of projects which affect the environment. Num Pages: 248 pages, 45 b/w illus. BIC Classification: KCN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370. Very good copy with light shelf wear
This book is an advanced text in applied welfare economics and its application to environmental economics. The author goes far beyond the existing literature on the valuation of environmental benefits, deriving sets of cost-benefit rules which can be used to assess private and public sector projects which affect the environment. He explains how valuation studies can be augmented so as to yield the information necessary for decision-making, showing how externalities, taxes, unemployment, risk, irreversibilities, flow and stock pollutants, discounting, and intergenerational distribution should be treated in social cost-benefit analysis. Drawing on a number of empirical illustrations, this book will be ... Read more
This book is an advanced text in applied welfare economics and its application to environmental economics. The author goes far beyond the existing literature on the valuation of environmental benefits, deriving sets of cost-benefit rules which can be used to assess private and public sector projects which affect the environment. He explains how valuation studies can be augmented so as to yield the information necessary for decision-making, showing how externalities, taxes, unemployment, risk, irreversibilities, flow and stock pollutants, discounting, and intergenerational distribution should be treated in social cost-benefit analysis. Drawing on a number of empirical illustrations, this book will be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521447928
SKU
KCW0012464
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99-1
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