The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199934386
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 163x234x25 mm
- Weight 675 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 b/w line 0
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Short description:
This book argues in favor of using cost-benefit analysis globally and examines the positive impact it can have in developing countries using relevant case studies. The book discusses the potential for cost-benefit analysis to provoke a global shift toward stronger and more effective economic policies.
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Cost-benefit analysis -- the formal estimating and weighing of the costs and benefits of policy alternatives -- is a standard tool for governments in advanced economies. Through decades of research and innovation, institutions have developed in the United States, European Union, and other developed countries that examine and weigh policy alternatives as an aid to governmental decisionmaking. Lawmakers in the advanced economies have used cost-benefit analysis to evaluate core environmental and public health questions, such as urban air pollution control, water quality, and occupational safety. Yet despite its broad adoption in the industrialized world, most developing and emerging countries have not yet incorporated cost-benefit analysis into their policymaking process. Because these countries face significant limitations on financial resources and have less ability to shoulder inefficient rules, it is extremely important for their officials to determine which policies maximize net benefits for their societies.
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environmental Policy, and Emerging Economies examines how cost-benefit analysis can help developing and emerging countries confront the next generation of environmental and public-health challenges. Analysis in the book examines the growing reach of cost-benefit analysis; presents relevant case studies where cost-benefit analysis has been incorporated in the Americas, Africa, Middle East, and Asia; and includes a discussion on the conceptual and institutional issues that must be addressed when adopting cost-benefit analysis in developing and emerging countries. In part because governments in developing and emerging countries have not extensively used cost-benefit analysis, there has been only limited research and discussion of the practice and its potential. Most work that has been done is on the domestic or regional level, and has not been widely shared or distributed within the international academic or policy community. By providing both theoretical and practical discussion of this important new tool, this book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of environmental policy, development studies, and environmental law.
Livermore and Revesz present a collection of articles on the use of cost-benefit analysis in emerging economies and the developing world. The collection discusses the unique problems of applying this tool in countries that are often fraught with market failures and/or institutional problems. A series of case studies on natural resource use and pollution control are included to demonstrate the potential of cost-benefit analysis in this setting. Overall, this volume is accessible to both undergraduates and graduate students. It would be a useful companion text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course examining environmental policy in the developing world. Highly recommended. Academic collections, upper-division undergraduate and above.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction
Foreword
1. Cost-Benefit Analysis Goes Global
Michael A. Livermore, A.J. Glusman, and Gonzalo Moyano
Part II: Valuation Issues
2. Cost-Benefit Analysis in Developing Countries: What's Different
Euston Quah
3. The Benefit-Transfer Approach
Lisa A. Robinson, and James K. Hammitt
4. Putting a Price on the Future of Our Children and Grandchildren
Maria Damon, Kristina Mohlin, and Thomas Sterner
5. The Shape of Distributional Analysis
Michael A. Livermore and Jennifer S. Rosenberg
Part III: Institutional Matters
6. Changing Faces of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Alternative Institutional Settings and Varied Social and Political Contexts
Jiunn-rong Yeh
7. Is There a Role for Cost-Benefit Analysis Beyond the Nation-State?
Lessons from International Regulatory Cooperation
Alberto Alemanno
8. The Diffusion of Regulatory Oversight
Jonathan B. Wiener
9. The Role of the OECD in Capacity Building for Public Governance:
Insights from the MENA-OECD Working Group on Regulatory Reform
Miriam Allam
Part IV: Case Studies in Pollution Control
10. Environmental Fuel Quality Improvements in Mexico:
A Case Study of the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Decisionmaking Process
Leonora Rojas-Bracho, Verónica Garibay-Bravo, Gretchen A. Stevens, and Georgina Echániz-Pellicer
11. Healthcare Costs of Urban Air Pollutions in South Africa
Anthony Leiman
12. Economic Costs of Air Pollution in Singapore
Euston Quah, and Wai-Mun Chia
13. The Challenges of Estimating Compliance Costs in Developing Countries:
Experiences from Brazil
Emilio Lébre La Rovere, Martha Macedo de Lima Barata, and Amaro Olimpio Pereira Jr
Part V: Case Studies in Protection of Natural Resource
14. Improving Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Assessment of Infrastructure Projects in the Brazilian Amazon
Marcos Amend, Leonardo Fleck, and John Reid
15. A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Resettlement Policy in Southeast Asia
Orapan Nabangchang
16. Cost-Beneft Analysis of Water Management Initiatives in China:
A Case of Small, Multi-Purpose Reservoirs
Shahbaz Mushtaq
17. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Projects in India
Pawan Labhasetwar
18. The Role of Distributional Analysis in Cost-Benefit Analysis:
A Case Study of Hydroelectric Projects in Panama
Sarah Cordero
19. Assessing Potential Carbon Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia
Jessica Donovan, Keith Lawrence, Christopher Neyor, Eduard Niesten, and Eric Werker
Part VI: Paths Forward
20. Challenges and Opportunities
Michael A. Livermore
