Kneese examines issues surrounding benefits assessment, including such tools as bidding games, surveys, property value studies, wage differentials, risk reduction evaluation, and mortality and morbidity cost estimation. He discusses methods for quantitatively estimating benefits derived from the maintenance or improvement of air and water quality. Suitable for undergraduate classroom use. Originally published in 1984

Kneese, Allen V.

Part 1 Basics; Chapter 1 Introduction to Benefit-Cost Analysis; Chapter 2 What are Economic Benefits?; Chapter 3 Links between Actions Affecting the Environment and their Effects on Humans; Chapter 4 Assigning Economic Values to Cleaner Air and Water; Part 2 Case Studies in Urban Air Pollution; Chapter 5 Aggregate Epidemiology-The Sixty Cities Study; Chapter 6 Disaggregate Epidemiology and Morbidity from Ozone Exposure; Chapter 7 Air-quality Benefits in the South Coast Air Basin and in San Francisco; Chapter 8 Air Quality, Wages, and National Benefits from Urban Air-pollution Control; Part 3 Case Studies in Rural and Regional Air and Water Pollution; Chapter 9 Effect of Air Quality on U.S. Agriculture; Chapter 10 National Freshwater Benefits of Water-Pollution Control; Chapter 11 Emerging Areas for Benefit Estimation; Part 4 Conclusion; Chapter 12 Concluding NotesPart 5 Bibliography and Index;