Social Costs of Energy

1. Introduction and some Conclusions from the Conference.- 1. Introduction and some Conclusions from the Conference.- Subject Area 1: General Treatment of the Assessment of Social Costs and the Perspective for Their Incorporation.- 2. The Social Costing Debate: Issues and Resolutions.- 3. Perspectives on Incorporation of Environmental Externalities.- 4. The Prospects for the Use of Environmental Benefit Assessment in the EC.- 5. Why Utilities Should Incorporate Externalities.- 6. Internalization of External Costs During the Crisis of Environmental Policy or as a Crisis for Economic Policy.- Subject Area 2: Empirical Estimation of Social Costs of Energy.- 7. Estimating the Impacts, Damages and Benefits of Fuel Cycles: Insights from an Ongoing Study.- 8. Identification and Incorporation of External Costs Associated with Energy Use.- 9. Measuring the External Costs of Fuel Cycles in Developing Countries.- 10. Evaluation of the External Costs of a UK Coal Fired Power Station on Agricultural Crops.- 11. Economics of Nuclear Risks — A German Study.- 12. Environmental Impacts of Photovoltaics/Solar Energy.- 13. External Costs of Rational Use of Energy.- 14. Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options.- Subject Area 3: Instruments and Approaches for the Internalisation of Social Costs.- 15. Evaluation of Instruments for the Incorporation of Externalities.- 16. Pollution Taxes — the Preferred Means of Incorporation of Environmental Externalities.- 17. A Prudent CO2 Reduction Policy: Melding Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches.- 18. Consideration of Environmental Externality Costs in Utility Buy Back (PURCHASE) Rates.- 19. The Indispensability of Externality Valuation in Least-Cost Planning.- 20. State Externalities Policy and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Who Bears the Risks of Future Regulation?.- 21. Incorporating Global Warming Externalities through Environmental Least Cost Planning: A Case Study of Western Europe.- 22. Observations on Extending the Set of Externalities to be Quantified.- 23. An Overview of Taxes and Trading as Environmental Control Policies.- 24. Utilitiy Externalities and Emissions Trading: California is Developing a Better Way.- Subject Area 4: Social Costs and Sustainable Development.- 25. From Social Costing to Sustainable Development: Beyond the Economic Paradigm.- 26. Beyond External Costs — a Simple Way to Achieve a Sustainable Energy Future, International and Intergenerational Equity by a Straightforward Reinvestment Surcharge Regime.