Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11690%2F17%3A10337825" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11690/17:10337825 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2016-0035" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2016-0035</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2016-0035" target="_blank" >10.1515/reveh-2016-0035</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making
Original language description
Background: Monetized environmental health impact assessments help to better evaluate environmental burden of wide range of economic activities. Apart from limitations and uncertainties in physical and biological science used in such assessments, assumptions taken in economic valuation may also substantially influence subsequent policy-making considerations. Aim: This study attempts to demonstrate the impact of normative policy assumptions on quantified external costs using a case study of recently discussed variants of future coal mining and use of extracted coal in electricity and heat generation in the Czech Republic. Methods: A bottom-up impact-pathway approach is used for quantification of external costs. Several policy perspectives are elaborated for aggregating impacts that differ in geographic coverage and in how valuation of quantified impacts is adjusted in a particular perspective. Results: We find that the fraction of monetized external impacts taken into policy-making considerations may vary according to choice of decision perspective up to a factor of 10. Conclusion: At present there are virtually no hard rules for defining geographical boundaries or adjusting values for a summation of monetized environmental impacts. We however stress that any rigorous external cost assessment should, for instance in a separate calculation, take account of impacts occurring beyond country borders.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Reviews on Environmental Health
ISSN
0048-7554
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
IL - THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
171-175
UT code for WoS article
000396033300018
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85015177643