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Instruments for Climate Policy focuses on economic and political aspects related to the recent proposals and the debate on limits in flexibility, and discusses EU and US perspectives on climate policy instruments and strategies. This is followed by chapters on economic efficiency and the use of...
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John Scott develops, describes, and uses new primary data about US industrial firms' research and development (R&D) investments to create innovative products and processes that provide goods and services without the by-product of pollution. New knowledge about environmental R&D is provided by...
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In their pursuit of policies to combat global warming, countries will find that they may also receive additional benefits which are not directly associated with the primary aim. These ancillary benefits are likely to include, for example, a reduction in pollution as a result of carbon...
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In this book, the first of two volumes, the authors provide detailed case studies of valuation techniques that have been used in developing countries. They demonstrate that valuation works and that it can yield significant insights into policy-relevant issues regarding conservation and economic...
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1. Introduction -- 2. Economic criteria for water allocation and valuation -- 3. Water as an economic good -- 4. Appraising flood control investments in the UK -- 5. Cost-benefit analysis and flood control policy in the Netherlands -- 6. Cost-benefit analysis of river restoration in Denmark --...
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This book provides an authoritative contribution to applied cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and other evaluation methods in the context of the regional policy of the European Union. Through the use of Structural Funds and other financial and regulatory mechanisms, the EU will help to promote...
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Cost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation which can effectively indicate whether a health care … economists, and the health care evaluation literature which relies on other evaluation approaches such as cost-minimization, cost …
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. Karoly -- 3. Principles and standards for benefit-cost analysis of public health preparedness and pandemic mitigation …, public administration, public health, social work, environmental affairs, law and business. John D. Graham, Indiana …
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HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes. This book presents the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) framework in a well-researched and accessible manner to ensure that the most important considerations are recognized and incorporated
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The aim of The Elgar Companion to Health Economics is to take an audience of advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and … researchers to the frontier of research in health economics, by providing them with short and easily readable introductions to key …pt. 1. Population health -- pt. 2. Health care finance, expenditure and use -- pt. 3. Equity in health and health care …
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