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Author:   Carla Guerriero (Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Naples Federico II)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780128128855

ISBN 10:   0128128852
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   02 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. The key steps in cost-benefit analysis of environmental health interventions 2. Environmental health interventions for the treatment of waters, solids, and soils 3. Health impact assessment: quantifying the health benefits and costs 4. Monetary analysis of health outcomes 5. Health benefit analysis: monetization of health impacts and its use in environment and health 6. Costing environmental health intervention 7. Discounting benefits and costs 8. Quantifying uncertainty in environmental health models 9. Alternatives to cost-benefit analysis for economic evaluation 10. Climate change and ecological public health: an integrated framework 11. Case study: a realistic contaminated site remediation and different scenarios of intervention 12. Conclusion

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Carla Guerriero is Research Fellow at the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Naples Federico II and honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Since 2009, her research and teaching focuses on the methodology and the application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Environmental Health Interventions and on the development of novel techniques to value children’s health. Carla has published her research in national and international research journals including PLoS One, The European Journal of Health Economics and Environmental Health. Carla conducted the first cost-benefit analysis of remediating polluted sites. She is currently responsible for the test and the design of the Cost-Benefit Analysis tool in the LIFE+ Gioconda Project.

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