well as from the use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, industry and agriculture. This report sets out the costs of … operating disposal sites for LLW in OECD countries, as well as the factors that may affect the costs of sites being developed …

consideration for the international environment. Thus, some of the trade costs of regulatory divergence may be avoided without …Regulatory differences across jurisdictions can be costly for traders. While these costs may reflect variations in … countries in regulatory policy and trade, this report proposes a definition of trade costs of regulatory divergence and analyses …

-resource management, natural disasters and environment-related hazards. The costs of not responding to them can be considerable, in some … cases representing a significant drag on OECD economies. Estimation of these costs can be an important part of identifying …, considerable uncertainty associated with all stages of “costing” the impacts of environmental and resource degradation. Even when …