Monetary Valuation of Environmental Impacts: Models and Data

ISBN-13: 9781138366565 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str.

Bengt Steen

Opis

This book provides data on long term monetary values of environmental impacts from human activities. It discusses the choice of system boundaries, and how to use monetary values in sustainable development. A large part of the book describes impact models in terms of the relation between emissions and impacts on natural goods and services.

Spis treści

Preface. Introduction. Goal and Scope. History and outlook. Terms and definitions, abbreviations. Monetary values of environmental goods. Emissions of inorganic gases to air. Emissions of particles to air. Emissions of halogenated organic compounds to air. Emission of volatile organic compounds, VOC, to air. Emissions to water. Use of pesticides. Radionuclides. Littering. Land use. Global impacts. Applications in product and process development. Reflections and prospects. Summary.

O autorze

Prof. Emeritus Bengt Steen got his PhD in chemical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden 1975, where he still is active. He is one of the developers of the EPS system, an LCA tool for product development. He has been active within ISO in several working groups and contributed to the ISO standard 14044 on LCA, 14045 on eco-efficiency and 14008 on monetary valuation of environmental impacts; the last two as a convenor.