The ethics and politics of environmental cost-benefit analysis / Karine Nyborg.

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Superior document:Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; 36
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; 36.
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Physical Description:xii, 128 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Basics
  • Introduction
  • The purpose of a project analysis
  • Types of analysis
  • Efficiency
  • Measurement of utility and welfare
  • Utility
  • Social welfare
  • Equal welfare weights
  • Benefits measured in environmental units
  • Disagreement
  • Willingness to pay for the social good
  • The main message so far
  • CBA and democratic decision-making
  • Democratic decision-making
  • Sufficient background information
  • Indicators
  • Politicians' attitudes to CBA
  • Recommendations
  • What to do?
  • Concluding remarks.