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Quantifying public health risk reduction benefits /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: AWWA Research Foundation
Other Authors: Raucher, Robert S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Denver, CO : Awwa Research Foundation and American Water Works Association, [2002]
Subjects:
Water Supply.
Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Risk Assessment.
Water Pollution > prevention & control.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of risk reduction benefits issues
  • Exposure assessment
  • Quantifying risk reductions : exposure-response functions
  • Assigning monetary values to risk reductions
  • Comparing risk reduction benefits to costs
  • Using benefit-cost tools to identify research priorities