Probability Is All We Have - Uncertainties, Delays, and Environmental Policy Making

Informationen zum Autor James K. Hammitt Zusammenfassung First published in 1990. In this study, the author suggests ways that policy-makers can think about environmental policy choice that responds to the importance of uncertainty and delay. Hammitt describes several tools for environmental policy analysis and illustrates their application to important policy issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Figures; Tables; 1. Outcomes and Value Uncertainty in Environmental Policy; Part One: Outcome Uncertainty: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion ; 2. The Policy Problem 3. Probability-Based Scenarios 4. The Distribution of the Score Function 5. Subjective Marginal Probability Distributions for Potential Ozone Depleters 6. Production and Emission Scenarios 7. Conclusions 8. Timing Responses to Potential Stratospheric Ozone Depletion 9. The Decision Framework 10. Results and Sensitivity Analysis 11. Conclusions; Part Two: Value Uncertainty: Food-Borne Risk ; 12. Valuing Health Risks 13. Choosing Among Potentially Hazardous Floods 14. Willingness to Pay for Organically Grown Foods 15. Avoided Risk 16. Willingness to Pay for Risk Reductions 17. Conclusions; Part Three: Extensions: Global Climate Change ; 18. Applying the Tools to Potential Climate Change; Notes; Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: James K. Hammitt, James K. (Harvard University Hammitt, Hammitt James K.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367190293
• ISBN: 978-0-367-19029-3
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy; Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Business & Economics / General, NATURE / Ecology, Science / Environmental Science, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols