Environmental quality, its measurement and control

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Waller R. A. (1970) Environmental quality, its measurement and control, Reg. Studies 4, 177–191. Before it can be controlled, environmental quality needs to be measured. This involves finding a measure of the physical environment which correlates with people's enjoyment of it. It also involves evaluating the worth of the environment in monetary terms in order to decide how much to spend. The paper summarizes techniques of evaluation and puts forward a method by which many diverse aspects of the environment can be related to a common scale which in turn can have a monetary value attached to it. The implications of this philosophy are explored in the context of political decisions relating to planning problems and using traffic noise as an example demonstrates how cost-benefit techniques can be applied to environmental questions.

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