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Main Title

Unfinished business : a comparative assessment of environmental problems - appendix IV : welfare risk work group /

CORP Author

Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation.

Publisher

U.S.E.P.A., Office of Policy Analysis, Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation ; Reproduced by NTIS,

Year Published

1987

Report Number

EPA/230/2-87/025e

Stock Number

PB88-127089

OCLC Number

20790426

Subjects

Environmental policy ; Pollution ; Risk assessment ; Property--Environmental aspects ; Recreation areas--Environmental aspects ; Pollution--Environmental aspects

Additional Subjects

Environmental surveys ; Comparison ; Assessments ; Environmental impacts ; Ecology ; Risk assessments ; Environmental Protection Agency

Internet Access

Description	Access URL
	https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=2000C06I.PDF

Holdings

Library	Call Number	Additional Info	Location	Last Modified
ELBD ARCHIVE	EPA 230-2-87-025e	Received from HQ	AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH	10/04/2023
ERAD	EPA 230/2-87-025e	2 COPIES	Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA	04/01/1994
ESAD	EPA 230-2-87-025 e		Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA	01/30/2004
NTIS	PB88-127089	Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown.		07/26/2022

Collation

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 28 cm

Abstract

The report is one of four reports comparing risks currently associated with major environmental problems. Ranking the 31 environmental problems according to the severity of the actual and potential welfare damages they may cause was difficult, principally because of the incomplete information about their effects and different levels of aggregration among the problems. Many types of welfare effects have never been assessed comprehensively. Because of the paucity of information, these rankings to a great degree depend on subjective evaluation. Environmental problems were ranked within five distinct categories of welfare losses. These are soiling and material damages (Chapter 2), recreational losses (Chapter 3), damage to natural resources (Chapter 4), damage to commercial and public property and to ground-water supplies (Chapter 5), and losses in aesthetic and nonuser values (Chapter 6). To give readers a better basis for understanding these rankings, the Introduction discusses the procedures followed in ranking the welfare effects and discusses some methodological issues associated with the effort. Chapter 7 of the report presents a detailed rationale for the ranking and some recommendations based on the results of the effort.

Notes

An assessment of welfare effects from environmental pollution, Comparative Risk Project. PB 88-127089.

Place Published

Washington, DC Springfield, VA

Supplementary Notes