ABSTRACT
Kneese examines issues surrounding benefits assessment, including such tools as bidding games, surveys, property value studies, wage differentials, risk reduction evaluation, and mortality and morbidity cost estimation. He discusses methods for quantitatively estimating benefits derived from the maintenance or improvement of air and water quality. Suitable for undergraduate classroom use. Originally published in 1984
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|37 pages
Basics
part 2|33 pages
Case Studies in Urban Air Pollution
part 3|47 pages
Case Studies in Rural and Regional Air and Water Pollution
chapter 11|16 pages
Emerging Areas for Benefit Estimation
Visibility, Acid Rain, and Groundwater Contamination
part 4|6 pages
Conclusion
part 5|6 pages
Bibliography and Index