Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making

P.Brett Hammond and Rob Coppock, Editors, Commitssion on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1. Introduction; 4 2. The Making of Cruel Choices; 5 3. The Politics of Benefit-Cost Analysis; 6 4. Benefit-Cost Analysis as a Source of Information About Welfare; 7 5. Comparing Values in Environmental Policies: Moral Issues and Moral Arguments; 8 6. Environmental Policy Making: Act Now or Wait for More Information?; 9 7. Choice Under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved; 10 8. Conclusions; 11 Appendix: Setting National Standards for Inorganic Arsenic Emissions From Primary Copper Shelters