Integrating Noise into Government Appraisal and Cost Benefit Analysis in the UK

摘要

This paper seeks to explain how noise is being integrated into Government appraisal and cost benefit analysis in the UK. Economic evidence and analysis play a central role in the development of evidence based policy by providing appraisal tools which can quantify the effects of noise. In this way it is possible incorporate noise into decision making along with the other costs and benefits which a particular policy option may involve. The UK government seeks to disseminate these tools as widely as possible so that they are available not only for policy appraisal but also to highlight some key questions for use in further research into the impact of noise. This first part of this paper gives a brief overview of the UK Government's theoretical and practical approach to creating the noise appraisal tools which we currently use. The second section outlines the results of the latest research into specific impacts of noise and how that work can be integrated into public decision making.