Title: Measuring the benefits of clean air and water /
Authors: Kneese, Allen V.
Date: 1984
Publisher: Resources for the Future ;
Physical description: xii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Introduction to benefit-cost analysis -- What are economic benefits? -- Links between actions affecting the environment ant their effects on humans -- Assigning economic values to cleaner air and water -- Aggregate epidemiology-the sixty cities study -- Disaggregate epidemiology and morbidity from ozone exposure -- Air-quality benefits in the south coast air basin and in San Francisco -- Air quality, wages, and national benefits from urban air-pollution control -- Effect of air qualtiy on U.S. agriculture -- National freshwater benefits of water-pollution control -- Emerging areas for benefit estimation : visibility, acid rain, and groundwater contamination -- Concluding notes -- Reports to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- Supplemental readings.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Air--Pollution--Economic aspects.; Environmental policy--Cost effectiveness.; Environmental protection--Cost effectiveness.; Water--Pollution--Economic aspects.