Traditional cost-benefit analysis as an aid to public decision making on environmental questions is subject to some serious conceptual and empirical problems. This paper discusses an alternative approach which utilises the Delphi technique of information appraisal. This approach is found to...

In many countries the existence of a comprehensive approach to environmental control through the auspices of a unified control agency is accepted. In the United States, for instance, the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received substantial support. Allen Kneese remarked...