Cost‐Benefit Analysis and the Environment*

By Cass R. Sunstein. Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Soil “Ecosystem” Services and Natural Capital: Critical Appraisal of Research on Uncertain Ground (2016, background): “Therefore, the passive or non-use values in Figure 10, as well as intrinsic values, cannot be taken into account (Sunstein, 2005).”
Green economy and related concepts: An overview (2016, unknown): “Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a decision support tool used to assess the welfare effects of a project or an investment and has its roots in the welfare measures of producer and consumer surplus (Hanley and Barbier, 2009; Hanley and Spash, 1993; Hansjürgens, 2004; Sen, 2000).”
Determinants of farmers' willingness to pay for soil conservation practices in the southeastern highlands of Ethiopia (2004, unknown): “The technique is now widely accepted by environmental economists following many empirical and theoretical refinements, which took place in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly in the USA (Hanley and Spash, 1995).”
New Estimates of the Demand for Urban Green Space: Implications for Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Boston’s Big Dig Project (2003, background): “These consumption costs will include travel costs, entry fees, on-site expenditures, and outlay on capital equipment necessary for consumption ( Hanley & Spash, 1993 ).”
Economics and adoption of conservation biological control (2008, background): “A wide range of NMV techniques have been developed to provide means to estimate monetary values for these non-marketed items (Hanley and Spash, 1993; Mishan and Quah, 2006).”
Review article: assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps (2013, methodology): “Important stated preferences approaches for estimating the environmental and health goods or services are the following (cf. Pearce and Turner, 1990; Hanley and Spash, 1993; Birol et al., 2006): – Contingent Valuation (CV) method: in order to valuate non-market goods, people are asked in surveys…”
Integrating Economics into Priority Setting and Evaluation in Conservation Management (2003, background): “The emphasis should be on identifying, measuring, and valuing a wide range of benefits, costs, and risks to better inform decision-makers (Hanley & Spash 1993).”
Valuation methods for environmental benefits in forestry and watershed investment projects. (2004, unknown): “9 For more details see: Pearce and Turner, 1990; Neumayer, 1999; Swartzman, 1982; Hanley and Spash, 1992; etc. Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3307569 6 country context.”