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CHINESE JOURNAL OF POPULATION RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 68-74Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10042857.2010.10684979
Keywords
health impact; economic valuation; mortality; morbidity; PM10; air pollution
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- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education: pricing policy for resources products incidence of welfare impact [20070001049]
- Beijing Science and Technology Commission: Study on the Regional Air Pollution Control Strategy and Policy [D09040903670905]
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In light of the practical need for research to inform policy in Beijing, this study evaluates the economic cost of the impact of PM10 pollution in Beijing from 2001 to 2006, taking health as the main impact, and mortality as the main outcome. Based on the literature review, this study adopts relatively conservative parameters as the basis for calculating the health impacts. It concludes that nearly 30% of mortality among registered residents above age 30 in Beijing can be attributed to PM10 pollution, and that the economic cost equals 0.8%-1.2% of the city's GDP over the same period. This is lower than the results of previous studies, but still high enough to warrant a commitment to solve the city's air pollution problem.
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