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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.
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Categories: Natural Hazards, Floods, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Weather

Snow-melting road technology in the works

By CostBenefit on Feb 7, 2011 | In Energy, U.S., Transportation, Weather, Newspaper/Mag/TV/Media Story, Costs and Benefits

... Solar roads that melt snow and ice seem less like a far-fetched pipe dream and more like an obvious investment. Engineers on opposite sides of the country are working to make that happen. Solar Roadways in Boise, Idaho, received a contract fro… more »

New Guide Helps Municipalities Monetize the Value of Green Infrastructure

By CostBenefit on Jan 27, 2011 | In General, Water, Energy, Land + Water, U.S., Natural Hazards, Green Roofs, Research Institute NGO NonProfit, Costs and Benefits, Press Release (May be biased), Wastewater, Free Report at Time of Entry

Quantifying the economic value of green infrastructure’s benefits is the key to helping municipalities adopt this innovative and cost-effective stormwater management approach, according to a new report by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) and… more »

Saving the Southern Murray-Darling Basin: The Economic Effects of a Buyback of Irrigation Water†

By CostBenefit on Jan 20, 2011 | In General, Water, Land + Water, Academic Study/Journal Article, Economic Development and Green Jobs, Natural Hazards, Agriculture, Forestry and Food, Australia, New Zealand, Regulatory Analysis, Computer Software/Database/Model, Costs and Benefits

Abstract: We use TERM-H2O in analysing the effects of the Government buying back water from irrigators in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin (SMDB) and thereby increasing river flows. TERM-H2O is a dynamic multiregional computable general equilibrium mod… more »

Financial protection of the state against natural disasters: a primer

By CostBenefit on Dec 30, 2010 | In General, Natural Hazards, Research Institute NGO NonProfit, Costs and Benefits

Summary: This paper has been prepared for policy makers interested in establishing or strengthening financial strategies to increase the financial response capacity of governments of developing countries in the aftermath of natural disasters, while prot… more »

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