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Acid Rain Economic Assessment

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Paulette Mandelbaum

    1. Chemical Engineering and Policy Analyses (CEPA), Rochester, USA

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  2. Carole Beal

    1. Acid Rain Information Clearinghouse, Rochester, USA

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Part of the book series: Environmental Science Research (ESRH, volume 33)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Welcoming Remarks

    1. Welcoming Remarks

      • Elizabeth Thorndike
      Pages 1-2

  3. Acid Rain: An International Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
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    2. Acid Rain — An International Perspective

      • Ian M. Torrens
      Pages 5-17

  4. Acid Rain Science: State of the Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Synopsis of Scientific Understanding of Acid Deposition and Its Effects

      • J. Christopher Bernabo
      Pages 21-34

  5. Confronting the Assumptions and Uncertainties: Assessing Costs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Cost and Coal Market Effects of Alternative Approaches for Reducing Electric Utility Sulfur Dioxide Emissions

      • C. Hoff Stauffer Jr.
      Pages 37-48

    3. Response to Hoff Stauffer

      • Larry B. Parker
      Pages 49-58

    4. Response to C. Hoff Stauffer

      • Robert W. Crandall
      Pages 59-62

    5. Response to C. Hoff stauffer: Is Environmental Regulation Hazardous to Your Health?

      • Frederick C. Dunbar
      Pages 63-73

  6. Confronting the Assumptions and Uncertainties: Assessing Benefits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Estimates of Acid Deposition Control Benefits: A Bayesian Perspective

      • Thomas D. Crocker
      Pages 77-93

    3. Response to Thomas D. Crocker

      • A. Myrick Freeman III
      Pages 95-98

    4. Response to Thomas D. Crocker

      • Paul W. MacAvoy
      Pages 99-104

  7. Efficiency and Equity: Can Acid Rain Policy Incorporate both?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Efficiency and Environmental Policymaking

      • Paul R. Portney
      Pages 107-114

    3. Designing Efficient, Equitable Policies to Abate Acid Rain

      • Lester B. Lave
      Pages 115-128

    4. Response to Lester Lave

      • Curtis Moore
      Pages 129-130

    5. Response to Lester Lave

      • Milton Russell
      Pages 131-133
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About this book

This volume, Proceedings of the Conference ACID RAIN: Economic Assessment, is meant to present the areas of agreement which economists have established and the uncertainties which they have discovered in their attempts to use the methodology of economics to better understand the nature of the acid rain issue. Scientific articles about acid rain initially appeared in 1972. The public turned its attention to the issue in the mid-1970s. In April 1979, the first acid rain bill was introduced in the Senate, authored by New York's Senator Daniel P. Moynihan. The bill sought to establish a federal research program dedicated to filling the gaps in understanding of the phenomena of long-range transport of air pollutants and their environmental, health and economic impacts. 'The bill was passed into law in 1980. Since then, tens of bills have been proposed to control emissions of S02 and NO , x thought to be the precursors of acid rain. And yet, in contrast with the pattern set by the majority of environmental issues, where legislation followed very quickly on the heels of public anxiety and involvement, by July 1985 not a single federal acid rain control bill had been passed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Chemical Engineering and Policy Analyses (CEPA), Rochester, USA

    Paulette Mandelbaum

  • Acid Rain Information Clearinghouse, Rochester, USA

    Carole Beal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Acid Rain Economic Assessment

  • Editors: Paulette Mandelbaum, Carole Beal

  • Series Title: Environmental Science Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8353-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42102-0Due: 30 September 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-8355-4Published: 27 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-8353-0Published: 21 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Biochemistry, general

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