Economic methods and applications for NAPAP's assessment reports
In this paper, we review the role of economics in NAPAP. The paper explains the criteria NAPAP uses to assess whether quantification of the benefits of reduced acidic deposition will be attempted and the criteria for selecting a particular technique or model. Next, the paper reports NAPAP's plans for including economic information in its State-of-Science/Technology Reports and Integrated Assessment. The paper concludes with an overview of what we have already learned regarding integrating economics with a physical science research program. The desire to include economics in NAPAP Reports is due in large part to the kinds of information Congress mandated should be included in NAPAP's assessments. In general, these assessments provide information that decision makers in the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, the state government, and others, can use to make informed policy decisions regarding acid deposition. To determine the importance of the acid deposition problem, these decision makers require information about current and expected future impacts of acid deposition. To determine the appropriateness of a particular control policy, many decision makers desire information about both the total positive and negative impacts that such a policy will have on their constituents and the nation as a whole.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 5944622
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-17042; CONF-890692-15; ON: DE89014922
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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