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Valuing health risks, costs, and benefits for environmental decision making : report of a conference / P. Brett Hammond and Rob Coppock, editors ; Steering Committee on Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decisions.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585142491
  • 9780585142494
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Valuing health risks, costs, and benefits for environmental decision making.DDC classification:
  • 363.7/05 20
LOC classification:
  • RA427.3 .V37 1990eb
NLM classification:
  • WA 30
Other classification:
  • QX 700
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Contents:
Preface -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- The making of cruel choices / Milton Russell -- The politics of benefit-cost analysis / R. Shep Melnick -- Benefit-cost analysis as a source of information about welfare / Peter Railton -- Comparing values in environmental policies: moral issues and moral arguments / Douglas E. MacLean -- Environmental policy making: act now or wait for more information? /Jeffrey E. Harris -- Choice under uncertainty: problems solved and unsolved / Mark J. Machina -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Setting national standards for inorganic arsenic emissions from primary copper smelters: a case study / Ralph A. Luken.
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"Board on environmental Studies and Toxicology; Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources; Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."

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Preface -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- The making of cruel choices / Milton Russell -- The politics of benefit-cost analysis / R. Shep Melnick -- Benefit-cost analysis as a source of information about welfare / Peter Railton -- Comparing values in environmental policies: moral issues and moral arguments / Douglas E. MacLean -- Environmental policy making: act now or wait for more information? /Jeffrey E. Harris -- Choice under uncertainty: problems solved and unsolved / Mark J. Machina -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Setting national standards for inorganic arsenic emissions from primary copper smelters: a case study / Ralph A. Luken.

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