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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248048
"This study examines the factors responsible for the growth of transport sector carbon dioxide emissions in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during 1980-2005 by decomposing the emissions growth into components associated with changes in fuel mix, modal shift, and economic growth, as...
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implications for their children's health. This paper--a product of the Infrastructure and Environment Team, Development Research … Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to study environmental health issues in developing countries"--World Bank web …
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the sample, implying widespread exposure to a serious health hazard. Poor households in Bangladesh depend heavily on wood …
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"New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle-income status because poor countries have neither the institutional...
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health costs can have a greater impact in the short-run in densely populated urban centers such as Abuja and Lagos. Black … its mitigation efforts. In addition to the negative health and the climate effects of emissions, most gensets contribute …
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premature death and morbidity, representing the single, largest environmental health risk in Europe. People in the larger cities …
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unacceptably high burden that exposure to PM2.5 currently places on public health …
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