1st Edition

Monetary Valuation of Environmental Impacts Models and Data

By Bengt Steen Copyright 2020
260 Pages
by CRC Press

260 Pages
by CRC Press

260 Pages
by CRC Press

The book is meant to improve our understanding of sustainable development of production and consumption. Monetary values of the impact of emission and resources are determined, and used in environmental management, with a focus on sustainability. Values related to cultural context are not possible to predict, therefore ignored. The book only focuses on environmental goods and services that are... Read more

Preface. Introduction. Goal and Scope. History and outlook. Terms and definitions, abbreviations. Monetary values of environmental goods. Emissions of inorganic gases to air. Emissions of particles to air. Emissions of halogenated organic compounds to air. Emission of volatile organic compounds, VOC, to air. Emissions to water. Use of pesticides. Radionuclides. Littering. Land use. Global impacts. Applications in product and process development. Reflections and prospects. Summary.

Biography

Prof. Emeritus Bengt Steen got his PhD in chemical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden 1975, where he still is active. He is one of the developers of the EPS system, an LCA tool for product development. He has been active within ISO in several working groups and contributed to the ISO standard 14044 on LCA, 14045 on eco-efficiency and 14008 on monetary valuation of environmental impacts; the last two as a convenor.