Valuing Environmental Benefits

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Valuing Environmental Benefits

Selected Essays of Maureen Cropper

9781858987378 Edward Elgar Publishing
Maureen Cropper, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, US, Principal Economist, The World Bank, US and University Fellow, Resources for the Future, US
Publication Date: October 1999 ISBN: 978 1 85898 737 8 Extent: 424 pp
Valuing Environmental Benefits brings together Maureen Cropper’s work on methods for valuing environmental benefits, especially health benefits, as well as analyses of the benefits implicitly attached to human health and ecosystems by environmental regulations.

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Valuing Environmental Benefits brings together Maureen Cropper’s work on methods for valuing environmental benefits, especially health benefits, as well as analyses of the benefits implicitly attached to human health and ecosystems by environmental regulations.

Beginning with a survey of the field of environmental economics (written with Wallace E. Oates), the book includes papers on valuing health benefits, valuing environmental amenities, and the political economy of environmental regulation. The author’s analyses of mortality benefits include both theoretical work and empirical studies of the value citizens attach to life saving programs. Studies of morbidity benefits include previously unpublished work on the value of preventing chronic heart and lung disease. Section two of the book focuses on the use of hedonic methods for valuing urban amenities. The book concludes with statistical analyses of factors influencing US environmental regulations in the areas of pesticide control, toxic substances and superfund cleanups.
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Contents: Introduction Part I: Overview Part II: Valuing Health Part III: Valuing Urban Amenities Part IV: The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation Index
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