Papers Commissioned as part of the investigation
The following three papers were commissioned during the course of the study:
- Setting Environmental Standards: The Statistical Approach to Handling Uncertainty and Variation Professor Vic Barnett and Professor Tony O'Hagan, University of Nottingham. January 1997.
- The Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Standards ERM Economics. September 1996.
- The European Dimension of Standard Setting Institute for European Environmental Policy, London. August 1996.
A draft version of the report by Professor Barnett and Professor O'Hagan was discussed at a workshop, Uncertainty and Variability in Standards, held in Edinburgh on 2-3 December 1996 and sponsored jointly by the Commission and the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh. The report was updated and published as a book:
Barnett, V. and O'Hagan, A. (1997). Setting Environmental Standards. The statistical approach to handling uncertainty and variation. A report to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Chapman and Hall.
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