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provided the health policy makers that urban city forests can mediate harmful effects of the external environment and improve … health status of residents. …
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The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985–2003. To avoid endogeneity … evidence for disproportionate effects on neonatal mortality, but for an increase in the number of infants with comparatively …
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. The most significant impacts are the air pollutions impact on health, built in environment, crops, forests, agricultural … areas and on global warming. The primary impact considered is the air pollution’s effect on human health. The monetised … value of the health impact, the external costs are calculated for two regional coal power plants, the effects are examined …
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from maquiladoras has serious consequences for human health, including respiratory disease and premature mortality. However … health. We use a series of computational models to estimate health damages attributable to air pollution from these plants …
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Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research …, pharmaceutical expenditures, and mortality rates. Reductions in pharmaceutical purchases and mortality are each valued at $900 …
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This paper focuses on the Don Sahong Dam (DSD’s) potential impacts on fish and fisheries, and particularly the project’s regional implications in relation to fisheries, including its possible impacts on food security, nutrition and poverty alleviation in Laos and neighbouring...
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Deals with the linkages among growth, employment and environmental pollution or degradation, by analysing the national press coverage of environmental issues. Takes into account political and socioeconomic transformations from 1973 to 1992.
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pollution on mortality in China. We find that a 10-μg/m^3 (roughly 10%) decrease in PM_10 concentrations reduces monthly … standardized all-cause mortality by 6.63%. The mortality reduction during the Olympics is mainly driven by fewer …
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Time series models relating short-term changes in air pollution levels to daily mortality counts typically assume that … the effects of air pollution on the log relative rate of mortality do not vary with time. However, these short … estimating time-varying effects of pollution on mortality in multi-site time series studies. The methods are applied to the …
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Multi-city time series studies of particulate matter (PM) and mortality and morbidity have provided evidence that daily … variation in air pollution levels is associated with daily variation in mortality counts. These findings served as key …, methodological issues concerning time series analysis of the relation between air pollution and health have attracted the attention …
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