Cost Benefit Links:

• Thayer Watkins' Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis--definitely read this one.
  http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cba.htm
• Some problems amenable to cost-benefit analysis--short, but will get you thinking.
  http://www.damagevaluation.com/problems.htm
• Cost-Benefit Analysis as it Relates to Environmental Issues--quick and informative.
  http://www.ualberta.ca/ERSC/cheviot/reports/CostBenefit.htm
• An article from the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics summarizing a Harvard study of life saving cost benefits--what's a human life worth?.
  http://yosemite1.epa.gov/__85256878006f4ea0.nsf/0/5483d9ad561350e0852564e000831c55?OpenDocument
• A summary of the EPA's Regulatory Impact Assessment of asbestos regulations.
  http://yosemite1.epa.gov/__85256878006edf36.nsf/0/2b9a007cc3e10a49852567a5006516bf?OpenDocument
• Ditto for PCB transformer regs.
  http://yosemite1.epa.gov/__85256878006edf36.nsf/0/ba73c5427873477b852567a5006516f1?OpenDocument
• A cost benefit analysis of remediating underground storage tanks in California--22 pages long, just a bit technical, but not hard to read (print it for easiest reading).
  http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/papers/costbene.pdf
• A Congressional Research Service Issue Brief on Cost-Benefit Analysis: Issues in its Use in Regulation (republished by the National Council on Science and the Environment, http://www.cnie.org/)--long but informative.
  http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRSreports/Risk/rsk-4.cfm
• A report on cost benefit analysis of efforts to fight Onchocercal skin disease in Ethiopia--fairly technical.
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/WPS1800series/wps1835/wps1835.pdf
• A html/javascript cost-benefit calculator to help you decide if your company should set up an intranet.
  http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/tactix/Tools/roitool/frameset.htm
• Water as a Social and Economic Good: How to Put the Principle into Practice (fairly technical article from the Global Water Partnership)
  http://www.gwpforum.org/gwp/library/Tac2.pdf

Anthony G Benoit  abenoit@trcc.commnet.edu
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