附註:"Board on environmental Studies and Toxicology; Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources; Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council."
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- The making of cruel choices / Milton Russell -- The politics of benefit-cost analysis / R. Shep Melnick -- Benefit-cost analysis as a source of information about welfare / Peter Railton -- Comparing values in environmental policies: moral issues and moral arguments / Douglas E. MacLean -- Environmental policy making: act now or wait for more information? /Jeffrey E. Harris -- Choice under uncertainty: problems solved and unsolved / Mark J. Machina -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Setting national standards for inorganic arsenic emissions from primary copper smelters: a case study / Ralph A. Luken.
