Water Resources Update

Universities Council on Water Resources

Issue No. 96: Summer, 1994

Environmental Evaluation and Decision Making

Table of Contents

Foreword ___________________________________________________________________2

Environmental Evaluation and Decision Making ___________________________________7

            Conceptually Sound and Operational Methods for Environmental Valuation

            by James P. Heaney  ____________________________________________________7

           Issues in the Valuation of Environmental Resources:  A Perspective from the

            Psychology of Decision Making  by David A. Schkade  _______________________ 32

            Environmental Restoration in the Army Corps of Engineers:

            Planning and Valuation Challenges              by Leonard Shabman  ____________________45

            Evaluation of Restoration Projects: Are There Elements of Projects that Existing

            Analytic Tools Do Not Describe? How Should These Elements Be Included in

            Project Evaluation?  by Daniel E. Willard  __________________________________57

            Evaluation & Decision Making in the Context of Environmental Restoration

            by Clifford S. Russell  __________________________________________________ 67