There are few development organizations that have integrated usability activities as an integral part of their product development projects. One reason for this is that the benefits of better usability are not visible for the management. In this paper the author analyses the characteristics of some published usability cost-benefit models....
The American Bar Association (Chicago, IL) has published The Cost-Benefit State: The Future of Regulatory Protection, a new guide that includes information on trends in cost-benefit analysis CBA, how courts are responding in contested cases, and th The American Bar Association (Chicago, IL) has published The...
In February 2001, Arizona began implementation of an Environmental Portfolio Standard EPS, which required electricity utilities to provide 1.1% of the total retail energy sales through qualified renewable energy resources by 2007. Recognizing that solar was the most abundant renewable energy source; the EPS directed that 60% of these projects...
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ACCI recognises the importance of sustainable development - which maintains the capacity of society, the economy and the environment to satisfy and sustain the needs and living standards of both current and future generations. Economic development and environmental protection are mutually reinforcing goals of...
Based on a cost-benefit approach developed by several of the authors for evaluating seismic mitigation options for apartment buildings, a demonstration study is presented for a hypothetical vulnerable school building in the developing world. Probabilistic cost-benefit analysis provides a useful framework within which society can evaluate seismic mitigation measures under...
This paper focuses on a preliminary cost benefit analysis of connecting households estimated to be in non-gas settlements (150+ households) to the gas network. This is estimated to account for just less than half non gas households. Potential fuel cost savings are significant, much more significant than the benefits estimated...
Resilient channels were developed by USG in the 1960's as a method of improving sound isolation between rooms. Considerable field experience has produced estimated failure rates between 60-90% known to be caused by any one of 12 issues which arise during or post construction. This has been a continuing problem...
This paper studies the value of time for commercial vehicle operators in Minnesota. The spring load restriction policy of Minnesota has been in effect for over 50 years with little consideration given to the cost that it imposes on the freight industry. A cost-benefit study was recently commissioned to examine...
Bay Cast's Scott Holman was one of five House witnesses testifying for more rational examination of health risks and cost-benefit analysis before enacting new regulations. Bay Cast's Scott Holman was one of five House witnesses testifying for more rational examination of health risks and cost-benefit...
A cost-benefit analysis must be employed in evaluating environmental investments, and no special discount rates should be used. It will be of at least as much use to future generations if we pursue high-yield investments than make special cases of environA cost-benefit analysis must be employed in evaluating environmental investments,...
This paper uses a cost benefit approach to assess the incremental value of increased response rates on the composition of fathers in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national probability sample of new parents. Most of the fathers in this study are unwed, poor, and live in large...
00-00-0000 Using cost-benefit analysis, safety officials found that Northern States Power Co. is cashing in on its new behavioral safety program. 00-00-0000 Using cost-benefit analysis, safety officials found that Northern States Power Co. is cashing in on its new behavioral safety program....
A cost-benefit analysis of food safety regulation can be summed up by answering several basic issues. These involve determining the effectiveness of evaluating information intervention, the desirability of government intervention over private initiative, A cost-benefit analysis of food safety regulation can be summed up by answering several basic issues. These...
THE EUROPEAN Commission wants to raise the proportion of packaging waste being recycled in the European Union, but the EC is being held back by the need for a cost-benefit analysis of any changes to existing legislation. THE EUROPEAN Commission wants to...
Byline: JUDY GREENWALD The Total Rewards statement distributed by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is much more than just a simple pension statement. "We looked at the cost-benefit analysis'' and "decided we could get a lot more for our mone Byline: JUDY GREENWALD...
The court rejected a major challenge to the 1970 Clean Air Act and EPA's implementation of it. The court said EPA was not obliged to consider an extensive cost/benefit analysis of its 1997 rulemaking. And it said EPA had not assumed powers that the U The...
00-00-0000 The U.S. House of Representatives passed controversial legislation that would require extensive risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis on all federal health and safety regulations. 00-00-0000 The U.S. House of Representatives passed controversial legislation that would require extensive risk assessment and...
BACK-SEAT DRIVER: The Corps' word is not what it used to be. In what may be a first, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA has engaged an economist to review the Philadelphia District's cost-benefit analysis for the proposed deepening of the Ches BACK-SEAT DRIVER: The Corps' word...
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