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Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making : Report of a Conference.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Executive Summary
- 1 Introduction
- RISK ASSESSMENT AND BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS
- REGULATORY PRACTICE
- CONTINUING ISSUES
- Contextual And Legal Constraints
- Approaches To Analysis
- How Much Information?
- Handling Uncertainty
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 2 The Making Of Cruel Choices
- 3 The Politics Of Benefit-Cost Analysis
- ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS
- Thinking Like Lawyers
- Ravenous Bureaucrats
- Media Hype
- Public Opinion And Political CultureCONGRESS: KEYSTONE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ESTABLISHMENT
- Omb: The Eye of The Storm
- The Health-Only Canard
- THE FEDERAL COURTS
- Rule-Making Procedures
- Reading Statutes
- REGULATORY AGENCIES
- ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- 4 Benefit-Cost Analysis As A Source Of Information About Welfare
- SCOPE AND COMPREHENSIVENESS
- MEASURING COSTS AND BENEFITS AT PARTICULAR POINTS IN TIME
- Diminishing Marginal Utility In The Intrapersonal Case
- Diminishing Marginal Utility In The Interpersonal CasePreferences Involving Poor Information Or Other Cognitive Defects
- Preferences Not Related To Welfare
- The Absence Of Appropriate Markets
- MEASURING COSTS AND BENEFITS OVER TIME
- When Saving Is Optimal
- When Saving Is Not Optimal
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 5 Comparing Values In Environmental Policies: Moral Issues And Moral Arguments
- METHODS OF REASONING ABOUT MORALITY
- Empirical Approaches To Moral Issues
- Arguing From Theory or Basic Doctrines
- VALUING AND DISCOUNTING LIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIESTHE SOCIAL DISCOUNT RATE
- SHOULD LIVES BE DISCOUNTED?
- Democracy And Consumer Sovereignty
- Excessive Sacrifice
- Indefinite Delay
- A Paradox
- WHAT SHOULD THE DISCOUNT RATE BE?
- PUTTING A PRICE ON LIFE
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- REFERENCES
- 6 Environmental Policy Making: Act Now Or Wait For More Information?
- IRREVERSIBILITY AND THE BIAS TOWARD WAITING
- WAITING AND SUNKEN COSTS
- Diesel Emissions
- Cyanazine
- Ethylene Dibromide
- REGULATION AS RESEARCH
- CHLOROFLUOROCARBONSCONCLUDING COMMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 7 Choice Under Uncertainty: Problems Solved And Unsolved
- THE EXPECTED UTILITY MODEL
- The Classical Perspective: Cardinal Utility And Attitudes Toward Risk
- A Modern Perspective: Linearity In The Probabilities As A Testable Hypothesis
- VIOLATIONS OF LINEARITY IN TILE PROBABILITIES
- The Allais Paradox And Fanning Out
- Additional Evidence Of Fanning Out
- Non-Expected Utility Models Of Preferences
- THE PREFERENCE REVERSAL PHENOMENON
- The Evidence