Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

PAPERS COMMISSIONED AS PART OF THE STUDY OF THE BASIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS

The following three papers were commissioned in 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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