Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Change
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Change
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This book is an advanced text in applied welfare economics and its application to environmental economics. The author goes far beyond the existing literature, deriving sets of rules that can be used to assess the social benefits and costs of private and public sector projects that affect the environment. Drawing on a number of empirical illustrations, this book will be of interest not only to those taking advanced courses in environmental economics, welfare economics, and public economics, but also as a reference for those undertaking project evaluations in government and business.
- Shows how to assess the social benefits and costs of projects which affect the environment
- The first to use cost-benefit analysis in this way, this is a text for economics students, and a reference for policy-makers in business and government
- Johansson is a successful Press author; Introduction to Welfare Economics (1991) has sold 1800+
Product details
August 1993Paperback
9780521447928
248 pages
229 × 152 × 14 mm
0.362kg
45 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some basic concepts
- 3. Consumer surplus measures
- 4. Valuing public goods: practical methodologies
- 5. General equilibrium cost-benefit rules
- 6. Cost-benefit rules, national income accounts and sustainable development
- 7. Valuation and aggregation
- 8. Cost-benefit rules in a risky world
- 9. Valuing changes in access conditions, health risks and information
- 10. Empirical applications
- 11. Policy instruments and international environmental problems.
