Measuring the Benefits of Clean Air and Water

Measuring the Benefits of Clean Air and Water
Author: Allen V. Kneese
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135988331

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

Who Pays For Clean Water?

Who Pays For Clean Water?
Author: Elizabeth E Lake
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100000323X

This book examines changes in public-sector budgets resulting from the Water Pollution Control Act. It suggests that clean water can be financed in two ways—public agencies can pay or industries can recover their expenditures through increased prices to consumers.