A number of recent papers have found that certain measures of pollution worsen and later improve as income per head … political system. In this paper we find that, for a number of pollution variables, an increase in civil and political freedoms … significantly improves environmental quality. For other pollution variables, however, we find that freedoms have no effect. The …

causes, the most important causes of premature mortality associated with heat wave and air pollution, among the Italian … especially sensitive to extreme heat and air pollution - such as the elderly, those in compromised health, and those living alone …