Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 222 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781781951163
Content:
Economists are concerned by a wide range of environmental impacts from pollutants, as they affect human welfare and not just human health. This insightful book demonstrates how economic analysis can contribute to decision making in environmental policy and discusses the theoretical limitations of economic valuation
Content:
1. Evaluating the impacts of pollution : an introduction and overview -- 2. Environmental toxicology and health risk assessment in the United States : economic and policy issues -- 3. Calculating morbidity benefits from reducing air pollution : a Spanish case study -- 4. Air pollution and agricultural crop damage : can Europe learn from the United States? -- 5. Monetary valuation of the toxic impacts due to acidic deposition in Scotland -- 6. Linking physical and economic indicators of environmental damages : acidic deposition in Norway -- 7. Prioritizing toxic chemical clean-up in Hungary using monetary valuation -- 8. Combining life cycle assessment and multicriteria evaluation : comparing waste management options in Spain -- 9. Cost-effectiveness analysis for nitrate pollution control in the European Union -- 10. Pesticide policy design and decision-making in the United Kingdom : information, indicators and incentives
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 9781840645583
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Umweltverschmutzung
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Wirtschaft
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Umweltpolitik
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Umwelttoxikologie
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Umwelttoxikologie
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
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