Executive summary Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature
death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 …

The value of mortality risk reduction is an important component of the benefits of
environmental policies. In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies …

There has been an explosion of interest during the past two decades in a class of nonmarket
stated-preference valuation methods known as choice experiments. The overall objective of …

The value of a statistical life (VSL) is the local tradeoff rate between fatality risk and money.
When the tradeoff values are derived from choices in market contexts the VSL serves as …

We review the experimental evidence on risk aversion in controlled laboratory settings. We
review the strengths and weaknesses of alternative elicitation procedures, the strengths and …

This paper discusses the nature, and magnitude, of externalities associated with automobile
use, including local and global pollution, oil dependence, traffic congestion and traffic …

This paper investigates the willingness to pay of a sample of residents of Bath, England, for
a hypothetical program that promotes the production of renewable energy. Using choice …

We conduct, to our knowledge, the first global meta‐analysis (MA) of stated preference (SP)
surveys of mortality risk valuation. The surveys ask adults their willingness to pay (WTP) for …

The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hot Weather-Health Watch/Warning System was initiated in
1995 to alert the city's population to take precautionary actions when hot weather posed …

Actions to slow atmospheric accumulation of greenhouse gases also would reduce
conventional air pollutants yielding “ancillary” benefits that tend to accrue locally and in the …