Setting environmental standards : twenty-first report / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
Date:
1998
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Credit: Setting environmental standards : twenty-first report / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RISK AND UNCERTAINTY Statistical criteria for tolerability Estimation of statistical probabilities Limitations of statistical probabilities Public acceptance of risks The precautionary principle Output from assessment of risk and uncertainty Chapter 5 ECONOMIC APPRAISAL Economic analysis and environmental standards Prior constraints Best practice in economic appraisal Specifying the base case Identifying the consequences Quantifying the effects Valuing the effects Distributional effects Cost-effectiveness analysis Multi-criteria analysis Application of discounting Current use of economic appraisal The role of economic appraisal Output from economic appraisal Chapter 6 IMPLEMENTING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES Geographical scope of standards Multilateral environmental agreements and free trade Subsidiarity in the European Community Enforcement of EC law Responsibilities for environmental regulation in the UK Area for which standards should be set Direct regulation Specification of standards Flexibility in practice Use of economic instruments vi 4.6 4.18 4.24 4,30 4.4] 4.49 5.4 Dall D135 5.14 515 pple Dal Dez By! 5.23 Be 5.28 Dic 5.49 6.9 6.10 6.15 6.24 6.27 6.31 6.34 6.39 6.45 6.56 51 Biv 54 =), 56 58 61 63 63 65 65 66 67 67 67 69 69 69 70 70 fe: ee, TT 78 ne! 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 88