Valuing the future: recent advances in social discounting

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The economics of enhanced landfill mining: private and societal performance drivers (2013, background): “Cost contingency (%) 10 Industrial reference Discount factor (%) 4 Pearce et al. (2003), the standard discounting rate EU”
Human rights, climate change, and discounting (2008, background): “…rate, however, leaves us committed to imposing heavy sacrifices on any generation to promote the well-being of its successors (Lomborg 2001, p. 314, Pearce et al. 2003, pp. 124–125, Posner 2004, pp. 152–153).14 Prior to evaluating this argument, note that this defence of a positive discount rate…”
Ethics of the Discount Rate in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2007, background): “First, irrespective of the ethical appeal (or otherwise) of impersonal consequentialism, it is clear that it does not reflect actual human behaviour at the individual level (Pearce et al., 2003).”
Current Issues in the Economics of Groundwater Resource Management (2004, unknown): “Pearce et al. (2003) indicate that uncertainty in the consumption growth rate and explicit recognition of the different range of individual preferences for the pure rate of time preference, which allows preferences for the present and for future generations to be included, might be incorporated into”