Some Issues at the Forefront of Public Policy for Environmental Risk

Molly Macauley

RFF Working Paper Series from Resources for the Future

Abstract: The lay of the policy land for addressing and managing environmental risk includes the hillock of the precautionary principle, the mountain of the practice and ethics of monetary valuation, and the tectonic plates of real-world innovations in markets and trading exchanges for nonmarketed environmental goods. This paper offers an overview of these contemporary and as yet unresolved issues and asks how each might be addressed in disparate environmental risks such as lightning, climate change, and severe weather. The overview focuses on issues that may be of interest to the American Meteorological Society’s annual policy colloquium.

Keywords: risk; environment; public policy; economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D89 Q00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01-23
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-ene, nep-env and nep-fmk
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