Acid Rain Economic Assessment

Welcoming Remarks.- Acid Rain: An International Perspective.- Keynote Address.- Acid Rain Science: State of the Art.- Synopsis of Scientific Understanding of Acid Deposition and Its Effects.- Confronting the Assumptions and Uncertainties: Assessing Costs.- Cost and Coal Market Effects of Alternative Approaches for Reducing Electric Utility Sulfur Dioxide Emissions.- Response.- Response.- Response.- Confronting the Assumptions and Uncertainties: Assessing Benefits.- Estimates of Acid Deposition Control Benefits: A Bayesian Perspective.- Response.- Response.- Efficiency and Equity: Can Acid Rain Policy Incorporate Both?.- Efficiency and Environmental Policymaking.- Designing Efficient, Equitable Policies to Abate Acid Rain.- Response.- Response.- Response.- Risk Assessment and Decision Criteria.- Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Be Used in Resolving the Acid Rain Problem?.- Risk Assessment and Acid Rain Policy: A Decision Framework That Includes Uncertainty.- Response.- Decisionmaking in the Absence of Scientific Certainty.- Scientific Research, Risk Assessment, and Policy Development.- Response.- Economic Analysis: The National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program.- Response.- Concluding Remarks.- Summing Up: Areas of Agreement and the Need for Further Research.- Dinner Speakers and Greetings.- New York's Strategy for Controlling Acid Rain.- Decisionmaking at EPA.- Acid Rain and Economic Assessment.- Canada's Acid Rain Policy.- Conference Speakers and Participants.