Abstract
There are a number of approaches which economists have adopted when considering the impact of a project on society. The traditional approach has been to attempt to quantify the costs and benefits of the project in a way which allows their comparison. The aim here is to assess a project and its ranking among competing mutually exclusive projects using net benefit as a gauge. In order to obtain a single measure a numeraire for all social costs and benefits is used - money.
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Harris, A.H. (1984). The Economic Input into Environmental Impact Assessment. In: Clark, B.D., Gilad, A., Bisset, R., Tomlinson, P. (eds) Perspectives on Environmental Impact Assessment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6381-8_24
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