Cost-benefit analysis and the environment recent developments

While the basic principles of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) are long-standing, the challenges entailed in applying these principles are constantly evolving. This paper reviews recent developments in environmental CBA since the publication of an OECD volume on this topic by Pearce et al. (2006). The ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pearce, David W. (-)
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Other Authors: Atkinson, Giles, 1969-, Mourato, Susana
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development c2006.
Series:OECD Environment Working Papers, no.97.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705434106719
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Foundations of Cost-benefit Analysis; Chapter 3. The Stages of a Practical Cost-benefit Analysis; Chapter 4. Decision Rules; Chapter 5. Policy and Project Costs; Chapter 6. Total Economic Value; Chapter 7. Revealed Preference Methods for Valuing Non-market Impacts; Chapter 8. Stated Preference Approaches I: Contingent Valuation Method; Chapter 9. Stated Preference Approaches II: Choice Modelling; Chapter 10. (Quasi) Option Value; Chapter 11. Willingness to Pay vs. Willingness to Accept
  • Chapter12. The Value of Ecosystem ServicesChapter 13. Discounting; Chapter 14. Valuing Health and Life Risks; Chapter 15. Equity and Cost-benefit Analysis; Chapter 16. Sustainability and Cost-benefit Analysis; Chapter 17. Benefits Transfer; Chapter 18. Cost-benefit Analysis and Other Decision-making Procedures; Chapter 19. The Political Economy of Cost-benefit Analysis; References; Indexes