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The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

Autor Karine Nyborg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 mai 2012
Putting a price tag on the environment is controversial. This book discusses ethical and political aspects of environmental cost-benefit analysis: why controversies must be expected, why they should be taken seriously, and how they can be handled in practice.
Cost-benefit analysis is commonly thought of as a method for ranking projects according to their contributions to social welfare. The starting point of the present book is different. Rather than providing a final ranking, the purpose of a project analysis is to enable participants in a democratic decision-making process to make their own well-founded rankings of projects, according to their own normative views. Since ethical and political views differ, the analysis should be useful as factual background for any reasonable social welfare judgement. This purpose faces the analyst with quite different challenges than the purpose of ranking projects.
The argument of the book is based on economic theory, but with a strong emphasis on readability and applicability. It is aimed at those – economists and non-economists alike – who use or are faced with cost-benefit analysis and environmental valuation in their work: politicians, employees of ministries and regulatory agencies, students, journalists, consultants and researchers. No particular prior knowledge of economics is required.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415586504
ISBN-10: 041558650X
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Part I: Basics 1. Introduction 2. The Purpose of a Project Analysis 3. Types of Analysis 4. Efficiency Part II: Measurement of Utility and Welfare 5. Utility 6. Social Welfare 7. Equal Welfare Weights 8. Benefits Measured in Environmental Units 9. Disagreement. 10. Willingness to Pay for the Social Good 11. The Main Message So Far Part III: CBA and Democratic Decision-Making 12. Democratic Decision-Making 13. Sufficient Background Information 14. Indicators 15. Politicians’ Attitudes to CBA Part IV: Recommendations 16. What to Do? 17. Concluding Remarks

Notă biografică

Karine Nyborg is Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo, Norway. In addition to her research publications, she has contributed to the debate on environmental cost-benefit analysis through her participation in several Government-appointed expert commissions. She will be the President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists during 2012 and 2013, and is also a fiction writer.

Descriere

Putting a price tag on the environment is controversial. The aim of this book is to discuss some of the ethical and political issues arising in the context of applied cost-benefit analysis and environmental valuation – and to do so using economic analysis, but in a language accessible to non-specialists. In particular, the author emphasizes the fundamental, but surprisingly often poorly understood distinction between normative and positive analysis, and the implications of this distinction for practical use of cost-benefit analyses.