Author: United States. Bonneville Power AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Counting the Costs, how BPA Performs Environmental-cost Analysis
Author: United States. Bonneville Power AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Environmental Costs of Electricity
Author: Richard Lawrence OttingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Reviews studies that quantify the externality costs of environmental damage caused by electric power services.
Cost-benefit Analysis Can be Useful in Assessing Environmental Regulations, Despite Limitations
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Retaking Rationality
Author: Richard L. ReveszPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195368576
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality, Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore argue convincingly that one of the least understood-and most important-causes of our failure to protect the environment has been a misguided rejection of reason. The authors show that environmentalists, labor unions, and other progressive groups have declined to participate in the key governmental proceedings concerning the cost-benefit analysis of federal regulations. As a result of this vacuum, industry groups have captured cost-benefit analysis and used it to further their anti-regulatory ends. Beginning in 1981, the federal Office of Management and Budget and the federal courts have used cost-benefit analysis extensively to determine which environmental, health, and safety regulations are approved and which are sent back to the drawing board. The resulting imbalance in political participation has profoundly affected the nation's regulatory and legal landscape. But Revesz and Livermore contend that economic analysis of regulations is necessary and that it needn't conflict with-and can in fact support-a more compassionate approach to environmental policy. Indeed, they show that we cannot give up on rationality if we truly want to protect our natural environment. Retaking Rationality makes clear that by embracing and reforming cost-benefit analysis, and by joining reason and compassion, progressive groups can help enact strong environmental and public health regulation.
Studies of the Environmental Costs of Electricity
Author: Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy
Author: Michael A. LivermorePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934398
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies. Through decades of research and innovation, institutions have developed in the United States, European Union, and other developed countries that examine and weigh policy alternatives as an aid to governmental decisionmaking. Lawmakers in the advanced economies have used cost-benefit analysis to evaluate core environmental and public health questions, such as urban air pollution control, water quality, and occupational safety. Yet despite its broad adoption in the industrialized world, most developing and emerging countries have not yet incorporated cost-benefit analysis into their policymaking process. Because these countries face significant limitations on financial resources and have less ability to shoulder inefficient rules, it is extremely important for their officials to determine which policies maximize net benefits for their societies. The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy examines how cost-benefit analysis can help developing and emerging countries confront the next generation of environmental and public-health challenges. Analysis in the book examines the growing reach of cost-benefit analysis; presents relevant case studies where cost-benefit analysis has been incorporated in the Americas, Africa, Middle East, and Asia; and includes a discussion on the conceptual and institutional issues that must be addressed when adopting cost-benefit analysis in developing and emerging countries. In part because governments in developing and emerging countries have not extensively used cost-benefit analysis, there has been only limited research and discussion of the practice and its potential. Most work that has been done is on the domestic or regional level, and has not been widely shared or distributed within the international academic or policy community. By providing both theoretical and practical discussion of this important new tool, this book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of environmental policy, development studies, and environmental law.
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment
Author: David William PearcePublisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
An in-depth assessment of the most recent conceptual and methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis and the environment.
Benefit-cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation
Author: Kenneth Joseph ArrowPublisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This primer highlights both the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.