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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2020

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Demand for information on environmental health risk, mode of delivery, and behavioral change : evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh

Maertens Odria, Luís Ricardo; Tarozzi, Alessandro; … - 2018

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Toxic Exposure in America : Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes

Agarwal, Nikhil - 2009

We examine the effect of exposure to toxic releases that are tracked by the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) on county-level infant and fetal mortality rates in the United States between 1989-2002. We find significant adverse effects of TRI concentrations on infant mortality rates, but not on fetal...

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Information Disclosure Policy : Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?

Bae, Hyunhoe - 2008

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, it is a massive and complex dataset, requiring significant expertise to interpret in its raw form. State governments have...

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Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2006

This paper provides a systematic review of the economic analysis of health, safety, and environmental regulations. Although the market failures that give rise to a rationale for intervention are well known, not all market failures imply that market risk levels are too great. Hazard warnings...

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Charging NOx Emitters for Health Damages : An Exploratory Analysis

Mauzerall, Denise - 2004

We present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States. We use a regional atmospheric model of the eastern United States, the Comprehensive...

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Environmental exposures and human health challenges

Papadopoulou, Paraskevi (ed.); Marouli, Christina (ed.); … - 2019

"This book examines in a cross-cutting coverage, how various environmental exposures affect individuals, workers, professions, and populations from different regions of the world. It also addresses concepts and theories related to environmental exposures and human health impacts via the air,...

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Effects of emerging chemical contaminants on water resources and environmental health

Shikuku, Victor (ed.) - 2020

""This book explores current issues dealing with the occurrence, toxicology, and abatement of emerging contaminants. It also examines new technologies and developments in sample preparation and detection of contaminants in water resources."--

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The Future of Risk Management, Volume I : Perspectives on Law, Healthcare, and the Environment

De Vincentiis, Paola (ed.); Culasso, Francesca (ed.); … - 2019

Section 1: Environmental Risk Management -- 1. The Italian Bus Transportation Sector. The management of environmental …. Decreasing the Environmental Risks Through Inclusion of the Private Companies in the Process of Household Waste Management …; Ivanova, D.; Kotcheva, D -- 3. Customs and IoT for Monitoring Risk Management Systems: Some Recent Applications; Varese, E …

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Racial disparities in the health effects from air pollution : evidence from ports

Gillingham, Kenneth; Huang, Pei - 2021

This study examines the uneven effects of air pollution from maritime ports on physical and mental health across racial groups. We exploit quasi-random variation in vessels in port from weather events far out in the ocean to estimate how port traffic influences air pollution and human health. We...

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