This report systemically compares all kinds of external costs and benefits of different electricity generating technologies. Environmental effects, employment and production effects, the depletion of natural resources and different kinds of public subsidies are all considered. Electricity...

The social or external costs of energy have received a high degree of international attention since the publication of the first empirical results in 1988. Possible global climate change and the call for a sustainable future of mankind have put the question of social costs onto many national and...

Die Tatsache, daß dieses Buch schon bald nach seinem erstmaligen Erscheinen in Neuauflage vorliegt, zeigt, daß der Autor einen wichtigen Bereich der Umweltpolitik beleuchtet. In systematischer Weise werden verschieden Arten von externen Kosten und Nutzen konkurrierender Technologien zur...

In diesem Buch werden in systematischer Weise verschiedene Arten von externen Kosten und Nutzen konkurrierender Technologien zur Elektrizitätserzeugung verglichen. Behandelt werden verschiedene Umwelteffekte, Beschäftigungs- und Produktionseffekte, die Ausbeutung erschöpfbarer Ressourcen wie...

This paper presents the results of research on the total costs to society of different technologies for electric power production in the Federal Republic of Germany. The analysis views electricity costs from a macroeconomic perspective and includes the internal or private costs as well as the...

The results of economic evaluations of the effects of anthropogenic climate change diverge significantly. The main reason are three normative assumptions which result in monetary values of the same climate impact diverging by the order of six magnitudes and more. The paper illustrates this...

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of both approaches. Main features of ?weak? and ?strong? sustainability approaches are...

This book reports and rationalizes the state-of-the-art concerning the social costs of electricity generation. Social costs are assessed by adding to the private generation costs, the external costs associated with damages to human health, the environment, crops, materials, and those related to...

This book reports and rationalizes the state-of-the-art concerning the social costs of electricity generation. Social costs are assessed by adding to the private generation costs, the external costs associated with damages to human health, the environment, crops, materials, and those related to...