of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the … for estimating the economic cost of exposure to an air pollutant is an important contribution to the literature. This … that a simple cost of illness estimate is about $3 per day of symptoms, the averting behavior method results in a WTP value …

This study documents and contrasts the development of knowledge about asbestos-related disease (ARD) in South Africa … industry. Between the 1930s and 1960s, the leading UK asbestos companies developed a sophisticated knowledge of ARD, though in … South Africa, where the leading companies such as Turner & Newall and Cape Asbestos owned mines, there was little attempt to …

costs specifically relating to asbestos. Diagnosed mesothelioma cases in Scotland in one calendar year were used to … investigate the subject in greater depth. Data from UK sources on asbestos disease types recorded in 2000 and their disease …, recorded, andtreated cases of asbestos-related diseases occurred in 2000 in Scotland. Mesothelioma accounted for 100 cases and …

. People do not. Hence, although the cost of writing insurance and annuities quite rightly concerns the insurance company, it … has nothing to do with the value perceived by the insured. Thus, because it is value and not cost that motivates someone …

terms of ABC's of the 1990 CAA Amendments: abatement strategy, banking, and cost competitiveness. The implications of the … general principles presented in this paper on least cost emission reductions and emissions banking to hedge against risk are …

first purchase price, the f.o.b. and landed cost of imported crude oil, and the refiners` acquisition cost of crude oil …

This Deliverable No. 18b - Capital and Operating Cost Estimates includes a detailed presentation of the 12,500 BPD coal …-to-methanol-to-gasoline plant from the standpoint of capital, preoperations, start-up and operations cost estimation. The base capital cost estimate … cost estimate as well as separate estimates for preoperations, startup and operations activities were developed by Grace …

A comparison of ten models for computing the cost of hydrothermal energy is presented. This comparison involved a … identifying the most important parameters in the context of accurate estimates of cost of hydrothermal energy. Important features …