Analysis Quote by Gilbert F. White

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do…

— Fred Thompson

Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these…

— Seth Moulton

About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

— Konnie Huq

Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay…

— Thomas Sowell

Water projects bring people together and offer improved health, a better quality of life and hope for a better future.

— Cedella Marley

Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call…

— Sandra Postel

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

— Bruce Henderson

The OECD advocates a risk-based approach to water security and is calling on governments to speed up their efforts to improve efficiency and effectiveness…

— Jose Angel Gurria

“Over a large range of cases, environmental problems arise from our entirely reasonable habit of taking the benefits of our activities, while passing on…

— Roger Scruton

In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain.…

— Frederick Soddy

In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs.…

— Julia Gillard

“Viewed abstractly, systems analysis implies rigorous thinking, hopefully quantitative, regarding the gains and the resource-expenditures involved in a particular course of action -- to…

— James R. Schlesinger