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Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …
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This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects associated with the extraction of natural resources and the transition from an economy based on fossil fuel use to an economy relying primarily on renewable energy sources. Chapter 1...
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In this paper, I empirically investigate the effect of climate change on health and migration in China. Using urban … temperature change, especially for the symptom of frailty; past hot weather is related to the exacerbation of health problems in … effects of past low temperature changes on health …
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economic activities. During and after the climate related disasters the health condition of the rural households get adversely … affected. In this connection, this paper is an attempt to analyze the adverse health effect due to climate related disasters … income and health inequality of the sample households and analyze whether climate related disaster and climate shocks have …
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well as the health benefits arising from the reduction in local air pollution. The shadow price of pollution is calculated … indirectly through its impact on life expectancy. Taking into account the health benefits of mitigation policies significantly …
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indirect effects on human health. According to World Health Organization WHO, 2006), some 2.5 million people die every year … conditions and climate variability can also affect human health both directly and indirectly, via changes in biological and … large amount of research on the effects of climate changes on human health has addressed two fundamental questions (WHO …
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health from burning fossil fuels. Our theoretical macroeconomic approach incorporates a separate health sector into an … is endogenously driven by innovation, with labor availability and productivity, and thus human health, being critical … 1% when health damages are included. The health perspective requires optimal environmental policies that are much more …
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, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications …
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There are local air pollution benefits from pursuing greenhouse gases emissions mitigation policies, which lower the net costs of emission reductions and thereby may strengthen the incentives to participate in a global climate change mitigation agreement. The main purpose of this paper is to...
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mortality rates in order to contribute insight into the potential costs of climate change. Previous research on the health … health benefits of climate change. …
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