Evaluating impacts in the distant future: cost–benefit analysis, discounting and the alternatives

Cameron Hepburn () and Greer Gosnell

Chapter 9 in Handbook of Sustainable Development, 2014, pp 140-159 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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