Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: From a policy perspective, the collaboration ofecologists and economists seems clearlydesirable. At the very least, if a policy goal involves implicit or explicit choices of ecological “end points, ” estimates of the cost of attaining these will be relevant to the original decision and to subsequent reviews of the policy’s performance. For example, consider the on-going heated debate about the wisdom, or lack thereof, of the goals and methods of the Endangered Species Act. But even the Clean Water Act involves implicit ecological choices, as its goals include making all U.S. water bodies of “fishable ” and “swimmable ” quality. A more ambitious, but also more controversial goal for collaboration would be the assignment of monetary values to the ecologically defined end points, based on what the citizens directly and
Authors: Clifford S. Russell, Mark Sagoff
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
OpenAlex ID: W1482487687