Global health and economic impacts of future ozone pollution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15545355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noelle E Selin (0000-0002-6396-5622, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Shiliang Wu (0000-0002-1383-4990, Michigan Technological University), Kyung-Min Nam (0000-0002-4579-4815, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), K M Nam, John M Reilly (0000-0001-5595-0968, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sergey Paltsev (0000-0003-3287-0732, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ronald G Prinn (0000-0001-5925-3801, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mort Webster (0000-0003-3583-1122, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M D Webster |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 044014-044014 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044014 |
| OpenAlex | W2263536655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
We assess the human health and economic impacts of projected 2000-2050 changes in ozone pollution using the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis-Health Effects (EPPA-HE) model, in combination with results from the GEOS-Chem global tropospheric chemistry model that simulated climate and chemistry effects of IPCC SRES emissions. We use EPPA to assess the human health damages (including acute mortality and morbidity outcomes) caused by ozone pollution and quantify their economic impacts in sixteen world regions. We compare the costs of ozone pollution under scenarios with 2000 and 2050 ozone precursor and greenhouse gas emissions (SRES A1B scenario). We estimate that health costs due to global ozone pollution above pre-industrial levels by 2050 will be $580 billion (year 2000$) and that acute mortalities will exceed 2 million. We find that previous methodologies underestimate costs of air pollution by more than a third because they do not take into account the long-term, compounding effects of health costs. The economic effects of emissions changes far exceed the influence of climate alone
Air pollution · Climate change · Damages · Economic cost · Economics · Environmental health · Environmental protection · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Human health · Meteorology · Natural resource economics · Ozone · Tropospheric ozone · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Chemistry · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Environmental Science · Global Health Care Issues · Medicine · Pollution
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |