Evaluating alternative “countermeasures” against food contamination resulting from nuclear accidents
研究了切尔诺贝利式核事故后，如何评估减少食品污染的对策的环境副作用和经济成本，通过英国案例的环境模型和支付意愿调查，为政策制定者提供决策参考。
Nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl have far reaching impacts on ecological systems. Likewise they have major implications for agricultural systems, since crops and livestock can become contaminated and rendered unfit for human consumption. A range of “countermeasures” exists, however, which can mitigate these impacts and allow food products to be saved. The CESER project has been concerned with the development of a system to assess the environmental side‐effects of such countermeasures. Estimates of the economic costs of these environmental side‐effects have been made for a number of case study sites in the UK, using environmental models and an original contingent valuation study. Estimates of farm level (private) costs are also included.