Illustrated by case studies from Europe, North America and the Middle
East, this book examines how non-market values can be identified,
measured and incorporated into planning evaluation methodologies. The
traditional means of assessing planning options, benefit-cost analysis,
requires that all effects be expressed in monetary terms and this volume
offers alternative approaches. It presents strategies for accomplishing
the major purposes of planning evaluation - including the provision of
an explicit, replicable basis for public assessment - in alternative
ways. Growing demand for public involvement and for accountability in
decision making requires better means for accommodating a broad range of
concerns in planning evaluation. Methodologies examined include
effectiveness-cost and multicriteria analysis, and the book explores how
these have been applied in practice in developing special-issue plans,
complex regional development strategies, and efforts to analyze the
environmental justice implications of major infrastructure projects. Use
of scenarios and problem structuring methods by stakeholder groups are
also explored.