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Cover Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment
Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment
Edited by
Alberto Fonseca

Reviewing over 50 years of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) policy-making and implementation around the world, this thought-provoking Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current research surrounding EIA. Presenting new trends in law and policy-making, it highlights best practices in the application of technology to impact prediction and management, procedural efficiency, decision-making and public participation.

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Handbook
Published:
08 Sep 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379633
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2022
Cover Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia
New Interventions
Robert J. Brent
This ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective dementia interventions to reduce the symptoms of this debilitating condition and also, for the first time, a Cost-Benefit Analysis of those interventions to establish whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Focussing on new interventions such as years of education, medicare eligibility, hearing aids and vision correction, Robert Brent also takes an innovative look at the need to reduce elder abuse and initiate an international convention for human rights.
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Monograph Book
Published:
08 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105760
Collection:
Economics 2022
Cover Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis
Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis
Tools of the Trade
Edited by
Scott Farrow
Teaching Benefit-Cost Analysis provides detail and inspiration that extends and clarifies standard textbooks. Each short, self-contained module includes guidance to additional sources while many also provide class exercises. Classes for advanced undergraduates, practitioners, or Masters students could especially apply these tools of the trade.
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Monograph Book
Published:
25 May 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435323
Collection:
Economics 2018
Cover Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods
Contingent Valuation of Environmental Goods
A Comprehensive Critique
Edited by
Daniel McFadden
and
Kenneth Train
Contingent valuation is a survey-based procedure that attempts to estimate how much households are willing to pay for specific programs that improve the environment or prevent environmental degradation. For decades, the method has been the center of debate regarding its reliability: does it really measure the value that people place on environmental changes? Bringing together leading voices in the field, this timely book tells a unified story about the interrelated features of contingent valuation and how those features affect its reliability. Through empirical analysis and review of past studies, the authors identify important deficiencies in the procedure, raising questions about the technique’s continued use.
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Monograph Book
Published:
28 Apr 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786434692
Collection:
Economics 2017
Cover The Tools of Policy Formulation
The Tools of Policy Formulation
Actors, Capacities, Venues and Effects
Edited by
Andrew J. Jordan
and
John R. Turnpenny
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the Elgaronline platform - www.elgaronline.com/view/9781783477036.xml Policy analysts are accustomed to thinking in terms of tools and instruments. Yet an authoritative examination of the tools which have been developed to formulate new policies is missing. This book is the first of its kind to distinguish the defining characteristics of the main policy formulation tools, and offer a fresh way of understanding how, why and by whom they are selected, as well as the effects they produce in practice.
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Monograph Book
Published:
24 Apr 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477043
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2015
Cover Cost–Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition
Cost–Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition
Robert J. Brent
Cost–benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications throughout all regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link between cost–benefit analysis and the mainstream health care evaluation field, which is dominated by non-economists. The need to build a bridge between the two is more important than ever before, as the general understanding of cost-benefit analysis appears to have regressed.
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Monograph Book
Published:
28 Nov 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781004593
Collection:
Economics 2014
Cover Developments in Social Impact Assessment
Developments in Social Impact Assessment
Frank Vanclay

Along with environmental impact assessment, social impact assessment (SIA) has its origins in the 1970s and has developed from being a tool to meet regulatory requirements, to a discipline that seeks to contribute proactively to better project and policy development and to enhance the wellbeing of affected people. This research review, by a leading authority in the field, collates the classic articles in the history of SIA along with the most significant recent papers in this expanding area.
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Research Reviews
Published:
25 Feb 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784713102
Collection:
Economics 2014
Cover Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning
Handbook of Sustainable Development Planning
Studies in Modelling and Decision Support, Second Edition
Edited by
M. A. Quaddus
and
M. A.B. Siddique
The thoroughly revised second edition of this authoritative Handbook, complete with new chapters, comprehensively examines the current status and future directions of model-based systems in decision support and their application to sustainable development planning.
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Handbook
Published:
30 Sep 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857932167
Collection:
Economics 2013
Cover Choice Modelling
Choice Modelling
The State of the Art and the State of Practice
Edited by
Stephane Hess
and
Andrew Daly
Choice modelling has been one of the most active fields in economics over recent years. This valuable new book contains leading contributions from academics and practitioners from across the different areas of study where choice modelling is a key analytical technique, drawn from a recent international conference.
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Monograph Book
Published:
28 Jun 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781007273
Collection:
Economics 2013
Cover Principles and Standards for Benefit–Cost Analysis
Principles and Standards for Benefit–Cost Analysis
Edited by
Scott O. Farrow
and
Richard Zerbe, Jr.
Benefit–cost analysis informs which policies or programs most benefit society when implemented by governments and institutions around the world. This volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners to recommend strategies and standards to improve the consistency and credibility of such analyses, assisting analysts of all types in achieving a greater uniformity of practice.
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Monograph Book
Published:
29 Mar 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782549062
Collection:
Economics 2013