Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Valuing environmental health for informed policy-making

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50201 - Economic Theory

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Reviews on Environmental Health

ISSN

0048-7554

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

IL - Stát Izrael

Počet stran výsledku

5

Strana od-do

171-175

Kód UT WoS článku

000396033300018

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85015177643