Situating Cost-Benefit Analysis for Environmental Justice
Description:
Cost-benefit analysis plays a significant role in the process of siting hazardous waste facilities throughout the United States. Controversy regarding definitively disparate, albeit unintentional, racist practices in reaching these siting decisions abounds, yet cost-benefit analysis stands incapable of commenting on normative topics. This thesis traces the developments of both cost-benefit analysis and its normative cousin utilitarianism by focusing on the impacts they have had on the contempor…
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Date:
December 2010
Creator:
Wohlmuth, Erik Michael
Partner:
UNT Libraries