The Health and Safety Executive estimated the annual cost to British employers and other duty holders failing to comply with health and safety requirements to be up to £18 billion. It is estimated that the construction industry contributed £2billion of these appalling statistics…
The objective of this thesis is to quantitatively understand the economic performance of protected area management strategies for forest and biodiversity conservation. Examples such as integrated conservation and development and eco tourism are assessed in terms of their ability…
The Clean Water Act has been the subject of legal and environmental battles since its inception. The purpose of this paper is to examine and critique the assumptions used by EPA’s Report on the Final Navigable Waters Protection Rule in 2020 and analyze their effect on the final …
In the decades prior to the 1980s, governments around the world increased the scope and magnitude of their activities, taking on a variety of tasks that the private sector previously performed. In the late 1970s, led by Great Britain, privatization became common: The objective o…
The organizational placement of the risk management function in California municipalities is typically within the city manager, city attorney, human resources, or finance departments. This study examined the effectiveness of that organizational placement within a sample size of …
With theoretical foundations in welfare theory, the cost benefit analysis (CBA) technique is a powerful tool for assessing benefits particularly where markets do not exist or would fail (for example due to the existence of public goods) or have become potentially politically exc…