Probability is All We Have (Routledge Library Editions: Environmental Policy) - Hardcover

Hammitt, James K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 036719029X ISBN 13: 9780367190293

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

First published in 1990. In this study, the author suggests ways that policy-makers can think about environmental policy choice that responds to the importance of uncertainty and delay. Hammitt describes several tools for environmental policy analysis and illustrates their application to important policy issues.

In the first part of the book, dealing with stratospheric-ozone depletion, the author describes techniques for accommodating outcome uncertainties. The second part of the study considers the health risks associated with pesticide residues on food. The final section addresses the issue of potential global climate change, and describes how the tools explored can be applied to this new challenge.

This book should be of greatest interest to academic, government, and industry analysts and others concerned with improving methods for environmental-policy making.

About this title

About the Author

James K. Hammitt

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036719029X
• ISBN 13: 9780367190293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310