Economic indicators for risk analysis

Recommendations are made for the selection and utilization of key parameters of economic analysis of risk associated with the effect of technogenic sources of risk on human health. These are the parameters which form the basis of methods for assessing harm due to sources of risk under normal and emergency conditions, optimization of protective measures, and so on. The following problems are examined: the qualitative (conceptual) and quantitative definition of the cost of risk (cost of the initial risk indicators): substantiation of the procedures and norms for discounting (reduction of economic quantities to same moment in time). Specific values of the cost of risk are proposed for the set of initial risk indicators. Their choice depends on the fields and purposes of risk analysis. The recommendations are based on the use of experience and results of work performed in this and other countries, including work performed by the present authors in the 1980s-1990s. 22 references.