`Water is not just H2O, but has a socioeconomic value for many use and non-use purposes. This volume contains a varied set of very interesting evaluation studies on water resources management. The editors have served the scientific community and relevant policy bodies with a balanced collect
Managing Cost-Benefit Analysis
β Scribed by Grahame Walshe, Peter Daffern (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 300
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introducing the Case Studies....Pages 1-38
Health Care....Pages 39-71
Privatising Public Sector Assets....Pages 72-97
Assessing Transport Projects....Pages 98-125
Electricity Generation and the Case for Sizewell B....Pages 126-158
The Trees in the Forest....Pages 159-187
Land Drainage and Irrigation....Pages 188-213
βWe Need A New Computerβ....Pages 214-239
The Appraisal of Private Financing....Pages 240-270
Some Concluding Thoughts....Pages 271-273
Back Matter....Pages 274-286
β¦ Subjects
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice; Business Mathematics; Business and Management, general
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Should Malaysia build a new steel mill, or New York City an urban motorway? Should higher education expand, or water supplies be improved? These are typical questions to which cost-benefit analysis, the key economic toolΒ for analyzing problems of social choice can contribute to,Β as well as providing
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