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Air pollution has major health impacts on people living in Ulaanbaatar. The excessively high particulate matter …, save lives and avoid enormous health costs. The implementation of the Air Monitoring and Health Impact Baseline (AMHIB …) study has brought together Mongolian and international air quality experts as well as public health experts and economists …
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Interest in environmental health has increased in recent years, largely because the most vulnerable groups remain … disproportionately exposed to and affected by health risks from environmental hazards. More than 40 percent of the global burden of … inextricably linked, but these links have been forgotten or neglected by policy-makers. The World Health Organization (WHO …
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This report complements Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development by looking at environmental health issues … that affect child health broadly, while also exploring the links through malnutrition. This report argues that … environmental health interventions are preventive measures that are imperative to improve child survival with sustainable results in …
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"In determining domestic water prices, policy makers often need to use information about the demand side rather than only relying on information about the supply side. Household surveys have frequently been employed to collect demand-side information. This paper presents a multiple bounded...
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"The authors interviewed commuters in Delhi, India, asking them to report their willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce their risk of dying in road traffic accidents in each of three scenarios that mirror the circumstances under which the majority of the road fatalities in Delhi occur. The WTP...
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incentives targeted to the poor. The simulations show that in this particular environment in Sri Lanka, demand for piped water …
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"Laplante, Meisner, and Wang present a study of willingness-to-pay of the Armenian Diaspora in the United States to protect Armenia's Lake Sevan, a unique and precious symbol of the Armenian cultural heritage. Dichotomous choice contingent valuation questions were asked in mail surveys to elicit...
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product of Infrastructure and Environment, Development Research Group is part of a larger effort in the group to study …
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