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Transport investment appraisal and the environment

Nijkamp, Peter; Ubbels, Barry; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2002

This review considers the role of environmental effects in transport investment appraisal, mainly from the perspective of cost-benefit analysis, the most widely adopted appraisal technique. Although the basic principles of CBA are straightforward, several complications are identified that may...

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The realities of using "benefit transfers" in transport decision-making

Button, Kenneth John; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998

There is an increasing demand for transport decisions to be made in thelight of some form of what may generically be called cost benefit analysis(CBA). The actual techniques may vary and often deviate quite significantlyfrom the conventional economic concept of CBA but in all cases theprocedures...

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Benefits and costs of transport : classification, methodologies and policies

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet; … - 1997

This paper discusses a number of issues centred around the evaluation of the benefits and costs of transport. It is argued that, for various reasons, transport cannot be treated as an ‘ordinary’ economic sector, and in the paper the policy implications of a number of the sector’s...

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Transport investment appraisal and the environment

Nijkamp, Peter; Ubbels, Barry; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001718494

The realities of using "benefit transfers" in transport decision making

Button, Kenneth John; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998

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Managing pesticide risks for non-target ecosystems with pesticide risk indicators : a multicriteria approach

Travisi, Chiara Maria; Nijkamp, Peter; Vighi, Marco; … - 2004

In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays … recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their potential for management purposes. A pilot approach is proposed, which … explores pesticide worst-case hazard scenarios at different space-time scales by means of a set of 5 ecotoxicological risk …

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Biodiversity prospecting over time and under uncertainty : a theory of sorts

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In this chapter, we study a drug producing pharmaceutical firm (PF) that searches for potentially useful chemicals made by wild organisms in a conservation area. This PF is able to...

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