Cost-benefit analysis of environmental change / Per-Olov Johansson.

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope of the Study
1.2 Plan of the Study

2 Some Basic Concepts
2.1 Households
2.2 Firms
2.3 Markets, general equilibrium and pareto optimality
2.4 Public goods
2.5 The Social Welfare Functions
etc

3 Consumer Surplus Measures
3.1 Two money measures of utility change
3.2 On the Properties of money measures
3.3 Environmental quality and market data
3.4 Complex changes
3.5 On Path-dependency of money money

4 Valuing public goods:practical methodologies
4.1 The contingent valuation method
4.2 Closed ended techniques
4.3 Utility Functions and demand equations
4.4 The Travel cost method
etc

5 General equilibrium cost-benefit rules
5.1 Producer Surplus measures
5.2 General equilibrium cost benefit rules
5.3 Assessing large projects
5.4 Some further interpretations
etc

6 Cost-benefit rules, national income accounts and sustainable development
6.1 An intertemporal model
6.2 Intermporal cost-benefit analysis
6.3 An illustration of a cost benefit analysis
6.4 Natural resources
6.5 National accounts and sustainable development

7 Valuation and aggregation: intragenerational and intergerational issues
7.1 The social welfare function
7.2 project evaluation
7.3 Compensation tests
7.4 Pragmatic views on the aggregation problem
7.5 Discounting future generations:an infinite horizon model
etc

8 Cost benefit rules in risky world
8.1 Uncertain supply or quality of an environmental asset
8.2 Option Value
8.3 A sample intertemporal extension
8.4 Assessing changes in future environmental quality
8.5 Some further notes on cost benefit rules in a risky

9 valuing changes in access conditions, health risks and information
9.1 Access value
9.2 Valuing changes in health risks
9.3 Some further notes on the value of the health changes
9.4 Valuing health benifits from air pollution abatement
9.5 The value of information and quasi option values
etc

10 Empirical applications
10.1 A cost benefit analysis of land reclamation
10.2 Preservation of fragile forest
10.3 preservation of endangered species
10.4 Social cost of environmental quality regulations
10.5 The Brown Hammack model for allocation of prairie wetlands
etc

11 Policy instruments and internal environmental problems
11.1 Policy instrument
11.2 International pollution
11.3 The acid rain game

References : p. 217-227 Index : Index : p228-232