The ethics and politics of environmental cost-benefit analysis
By: by Karine Nyborg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780415586504; 9780203117613
Subjects: Estimates and costs; Cost effectiveness; Environmental protection; Environmental policy; Political ethics
Table of contents: title: Basics; title: Introduction; title: The purpose of a project analysis; title: Types of analysis; title: Efficiency; title: Measurement of utility and welfare; title: Utility; title: Social welfare; title: Equal welfare weights; title: Benefits measured in environmental units; title: Disagreement; title: Willingness to pay for the social good; title: The main message so far; title: CBA and democratic decision-making; title: Democratic decision-making; title: Sufficient background information; title: Indicators; title: Politicians' attitudes to CBA; title: Recommendations; title: What to do?; title: Concluding remarks.