Categories: South, Florida

Contact
Home

Cost Benefit News covers legal, academic, and regulatory developments pertaining to the valuation of environmental amenities and disamenities, such as clean air, trees, parks, congestion, and noise. We apprise the reader about ways in which costs and benefits are measured, and the results of empirical studies. We hope that this information will allow public and private organizations to comprehend the risks and benefits of various actions, help disputants to resolve conflicts equitably and efficiently, and improve the quality of public policies. We will only discuss issues related to the empirical quantification of private and social costs and benefits and damages, and summarize information from daily newspapers, academic journals, legal publications, court decisions, professional newsletters commissioned studies, and on-line services. This newsletter is dedicated to the principle that all policies place values upon life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We believe that more information, explicit specification of assumptions, and rigorous analysis can help our society to better meet these ends. This site will increasingly serve, in conjunction with others, as a valuation database. We will include a wide range of studies, including non-environmental reports, because omission of a factor effectively values it at zero, and biases decisions. Heavy traffic has caused several site crashes. We are attempting to correct these problems. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Categories
XML Feeds
- RSS 2.0: Posts
- Atom: Posts
More on RSS

Preventing land loss in coastal Louisiana: Estimates of WTP and WTA

By CostBenefit on Jan 3, 2011 | In General, Land, Land + Water, Academic Study/Journal Article, Wetlands, South, Contingent Valuation, Surveys,.., Costs and Benefits

Purchase the full-text article Daniel R. Petroliaa, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Tae-Goun Kimb, 1, E-mail The Corresponding Author a Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State Universit… more »

ConocoPhillips Company and Sasol North America Agree to Reimburse Costs for Calcasieu Estuary, Bayou Verdine Cleanup - Agreement will reimburse EPA Superfund over $4.5 million, resolve nearly $1.2 million in natural resource damages assessment costs

By CostBenefit on Oct 13, 2010 | In Water, Land + Water, Contaminated Properties, Legal, Fines, Companies,CSR,Business,Finance, South, Natural Resource Damages, Ecosystem Valuation, Contamination Cost, Costs and Benefits

The Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Attorney’s Office announced on October 13, 2010, the settlement of claims against ConocoPhillips Company and Sasol North America Inc. to resolve their liability to EPA u… more »

Oceana: Offshore Wind Power Will Create More Jobs and Produce Cheaper, Cleaner Energy off the U.S. Atlantic Coast than Offshore Oil & Gas

By CostBenefit on Oct 11, 2010 | In General, Water, Energy, Climate Change GHG Carbon CO2, South, Northeast, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Regulatory Analysis, Costs and Benefits, Opinion (Not Likely Ours EV&CBN), Press Release (May be biased), VA,WV,MD,DE, Free Report at Time of Entry

As the high costs of heavy U.S. reliance on fossil fuels become clear, Oceana urges policymakers to invest more in the development of cheaper renewable energy choices. An Oceana analysis released on September 28, 2010 finds that offshore wind potential… more »

Attribute-based analysis of hunters’ lease preferences

By CostBenefit on Sep 25, 2010 | In Land, Academic Study/Journal Article, Agriculture, Forestry and Food, South, Contingent Valuation, Surveys,.., Costs and Benefits, Recreation

Abstract: Understanding of hunter preferences for hunting lease attributes is important to landowners because such knowledge provides key information for managing and marketing fee-hunting in order to maximize revenues. Premised on this insight, we used… more »

Cost-Benefit News

Categories

XML Feeds