Measuring the benefits of clean air and water / Allen V. Kneese.

Author
Kneese, Allen V. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future ; [Baltimore, Md.] : Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1984.
Description
xii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. 129-150.
    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 quality 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.
    ISBN
    • 0915707098 ((pbk.))
    • 9780915707096 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    84017899
    OCLC
    11114294
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