Tag: <span>cost-benefit analysis</span>

The SCC: the most important number almost no one has ever heard of.

By Karen Corey Love Canal. Chernobyl. Bhopal. Three Mile Island. Deepwater Horizon. Fukushima. Each of these is a place that has become synonymous with environmental disaster, provoking environmental regulation and concerns about large-scale environmental devastation.  Few people argue with the necessity of investing money to rehabilitate Superfund sites or radiation-contaminated zones.  But long-term, chronic environmental …

Timing of Cost-Benefit Analyses

One thing I was particularly glad of during my internship was our class discussions regarding cost-benefit analyses, since the policy world is abuzz with the term at the moment. However, I began to think hard about a dimension of CBA that had not been discussed at CEP—the timeline of the …