EPA Final Report

 

EPA/NSF STAR Partnership for Environmental Research

Decision-Making and Valuation for Environmental Policy

Innovations and Improvements in Environmental Decision Making

Sorting Code   98-NCERQA-J5

 

 

 

Assessing Preferences for Environmental Decisions with

Long-Term Consequences

 

Principal Investigator Dr. L. Robin Keller

University of California, Irvine

350 Graduate School of Management

Irvine, CA 92697-3125

(949) 824-6348

FAX (949) 824-8469

LRKeller@uci.edu

Website: http://www.gsm.uci.edu/~keller/

 

 

 

 

 

FINAL REPORT

 June 10, 2002

 

 

 

 

 

Final Report by:

 

Dipayan Biswas (UC Irvine)

 

Thomas Eppel (UC Irvine)

 

Jeffery L. Guyse (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

 

Robin Keller (UC Irvine)

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

TOPIC                                                                                                                                    PAGE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY                                                                                                      ES.1

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION                                                                                                 1.1

Chapter 2. VALUING ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES: PREFERENCES FOR

      CONSTANT OR IMPROVING SEQUENCES                                                   2.1

Chapter 3. VALUING LIVES LOST OR SAVED OVER TIME                                             3.1

Chapter 4. PRACTITIONERS’ VIEWS ON DISCOUNTING                                               4.1

Chapter 5. EXAMINING PREDICTIVE ACCURACY AMONG DISCOUNTING

      MODELS                                                                                                              5.1

Chapter 6. REFERENCES                                                                                                       6.1

Chapter 7. TABLES                                                                                                                 7.1

Chapter 8. FIGURES                                                                                                               8.1

 

APPENDICES TO SELECT CHAPTERS

Chapter 2:                                                                                                                                A2a.1

Appendix 2A: Survey of Preferences for Environmental Sequences

Appendix 2B: Results of Preferences for Sequences Environmental                                            A2b.1

 

Chapter 3:

Appendix 3A: Survey of Preferences for Lives Sequences                                                         A3a.1

Appendix 3B: Results of Preferences for Lives Sequences                                                         A3b.1

 

Chapter 4:

Appendix 4: Transcripts of Practitioner Interviews                                                                     A4.1