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Risk-benefit analysis and public policy: a bibliography

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7306992· OSTI ID:7306992
Risk-benefit analysis has been implicitly practiced whenever decision-makers are confronted with decisions involving risks to life, health, or to the environment. Various methodologies have been developed to evaluate relevant criteria and to aid in assessing the impacts of alternative projects. Among these have been cost-benefit analysis, which has been widely used for project evaluation. However, in many cases it has been difficult to assign dollar costs to those criteria involving risks and benefits which are not now assigned explicit monetary values in our economic system. Hence, risk-benefit analysis has evolved to become more than merely an extension of cost-benefit analysis, and many methods have been applied to examine the trade-offs between risks and benefits. In addition, new scientific and statistical techniques have been developed for assessing current and future risks. The 950 references included in this bibliography are meant to suggest the breadth of those methodologies which have been applied to decisions involving risk.
Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
OSTI ID:
7306992
Report Number(s):
BNL-22285
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English