James K. Hammitt

Probability is All We Have (eBook, ePUB)

Uncertainties, Delays, and Environmental Policy Making

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1990. In this study, the author suggests ways that policy-makers can think about environmental policy choice that responds to the importance of uncertainty and delay. Hammitt describes several tools for environmental policy analysis and illustrates their application to important policy issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429576188
• Artikelnr.: 56847428

Autorenporträt

James K. Hammitt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Figures
Tables
1. Outcomes and Value Uncertainty in Environmental Policy
Part One: Outcome Uncertainty: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
2. The Policy Problem 3. Probability-Based Scenarios 4. The Distribution of the Score Function 5. Subjective Marginal Probability Distributions for Potential Ozone Depleters 6. Production and Emission Scenarios 7. Conclusions 8. Timing Responses to Potential Stratospheric Ozone Depletion 9. The Decision Framework 10. Results and Sensitivity Analysis 11. Conclusions
Part Two: Value Uncertainty: Food-Borne Risk
12. Valuing Health Risks 13. Choosing Among Potentially Hazardous Floods 14. Willingness to Pay for Organically Grown Foods 15. Avoided Risk 16. Willingness to Pay for Risk Reductions 17. Conclusions
Part Three: Extensions: Global Climate Change
18. Applying the Tools to Potential Climate Change
Notes
Bibliography