Chapter 20 Quantifying and Valuing Environmental Health Risks

Handbook of Environmental Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1029-1103

  Viscusi, W Kip ^a   Gayer, Ted ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cost benefit analysis; hedonic models; risk assessment; risk risk analysis; value of statistical life

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049119953     PISSN: 15740099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0099(05)02020-6     Document Type: Review

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