scholarly journals Environmental costs and benefits of growingMiscanthusfor bioenergy in the UK

GCB Bioenergy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon P. McCalmont ◽  
Astley Hastings ◽  
Niall P. McNamara ◽  
Goetz M. Richter ◽  
Paul Robson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals The Costs and Benefits of Secured Creditor Control in Bankruptcy: Evidence from the UK

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Armour ◽  
Audrey Wen-hsin Hsu ◽  
Adrian Walters
Keyword(s):  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals LIVING WITH COVID-19: BALANCING COSTS AGAINST BENEFITS IN THE FACE OF THE VIRUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 253 ◽  
pp. R60-R76 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Miles ◽  
Mike Stedman ◽  
Adrian Heald
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Health Care Decisions ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Resource Decisions

This paper analyses the costs and benefits of lockdown policies in the face of COVID-19. What matters for people is the quality and length of lives and one should measure costs and benefits in terms of those things. That raises difficulties in measurement, particularly in valuing potential lives saved. We draw upon guidelines used in the UK for public health decisions, as well as other measures, which allow a comparison between health effects and other economic effects. We look at evidence on the effectiveness of past severe restrictions applied in European countries, focusing on the evidence from the UK. The paper considers policy options for the degree to which restrictions are eased. There is a need to normalise how we view COVID because its costs and risks are comparable to other health problems (such as cancer, heart problems, diabetes) where governments have made resource decisions for decades. The lockdown is a public health policy and we have valued its impact using the tools that guide health care decisions in the UK public health system. The evidence suggests that the costs of continuing severe restrictions in the UK are large relative to likely benefits so that a substantial easing in general restrictions in favour of more targeted measures is warranted.

scholarly journals The Tolerable Cost of European Union Regulation: Leaving the EU and the Market for Politically Convenient Facts

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY FOOKS ◽  
TOM MILLS
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Costs And Benefits ◽  
Business Competitiveness ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

AbstractEuropean Union (EU) law-making has played a key role in promoting social equity in the UK through safer working conditions, enhanced rights for workers, and by reducing environmental pollution. Concerns over its effect on business competitiveness have long been a major driver of Euroscepticism, underpinning criticism of the EU by influential opinion formers within British conservatism. The Leave Campaign argued that EU laws damage the UK economy by imposing unnecessary costs on British business, claiming that EU regulations cost the UK economy £33.3 billion per year. This paper examines the reliability of, and assumptions that underpin, aggregated estimates of the costs and benefits of EU-derived regulation, and considers how the economisation of public policy influences understanding of the social value of regulation. It brings together the findings of studies that have evaluated the accuracy of the estimated costs and benefits in formal impact assessments and analyses impact assessments of EU-derived policy instruments aimed at regulating working conditions. Our findings suggest that aggregated estimates represent poor guides to understanding the social costs and benefits of social regulation and highlight the value of discarding impact assessment estimates of costs and benefits in the context of efforts to shape social policy post-Brexit.

Environmental costs and their impact on the net present value of a hydro-electric project in Kerala, India

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Santhakumar ◽  
Achin Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Net Present Value ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Net Benefit ◽  
Pulp Industry ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cost

This paper presents the operational procedures involved in incorporating the environmental costs in the cost–benefit analysis of a hydro-electric project. The proposed project, if implemented, would result in the loss of 2,800 hectares of tropical forests and dislocation of two settlements of about 200 families who are currently dependent on the forests for their livelihood. The forests are mainly used for extracting reed – a material used both by traditional artisans and the paper-pulp industry. The potential environmental costs and benefits of the project are identified and approximate estimates of some of these costs are made for items such as carbon sequestration, bio-diversity, and so on, based on similar estimates made elsewhere. These estimated environmental costs are incorporated into the analysis, and the hypothetical estimate of the non-use value, which would make the project's net benefit zero, is estimated under different discount rates. The analysis brings into sharp focus some crucial factors that have a direct bearing on the social trade-off involved in the project choice.

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