Allen V Kneese

Measuring the Benefits of Clean Air and Water

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kneese examines issues surrounding benefits assessment, including such tools as bidding games, surveys, property value studies, wage differentials, risk reduction evaluation, and mortality and morbidity cost estimation. He discusses methods for quantitatively estimating benefits derived from the maintenance or improvement of air and water quality. Suitable for undergraduate classroom use. First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135988265
• ISBN-10: 1135988269
• Artikelnr.: 59477062

Autorenporträt

Kneese, Allen V.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Basics
Chapter 1 Introduction to Benefit-Cost Analysis
Chapter 2 What are Economic Benefits?
Chapter 3 Links between Actions Affecting the Environment and their Effects on Humans
Chapter 4 Assigning Economic Values to Cleaner Air and Water
Part 2 Case Studies in Urban Air Pollution
Chapter 5 Aggregate Epidemiology-The Sixty Cities Study
Chapter 6 Disaggregate Epidemiology and Morbidity from Ozone Exposure
Chapter 7 Air-quality Benefits in the South Coast Air Basin and in San Francisco
Chapter 8 Air Quality, Wages, and National Benefits from Urban Air-pollution Control
Part 3 Case Studies in Rural and Regional Air and Water Pollution
Chapter 9 Effect of Air Quality on U.S. Agriculture
Chapter 10 National Freshwater Benefits of Water-Pollution Control
Chapter 11 Emerging Areas for Benefit Estimation
Part 4 Conclusion
Chapter 12 Concluding NotesPart 5 Bibliography and Index