Ari Rabl

How Much Is Clean Air Worth? (eBook, ePUB)

Calculating the Benefits of Pollution Control

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How Much Is Clean Air Worth? offers readers a comprehensive overview of the core methodologies and tools used to quantify the impacts and damage costs of pollution. The book begins by reviewing the tools used for environmental assessments and shows that a rational approach requires an impact pathway analysis (IPA) for each of the possible impacts of a pollutant, i.e. an analysis of the chain emission -> dispersion -> exposure-response functions -> monetary valuation. The IPA methodology is explained in full and illustrated with worked examples, and difficulties are discussed and uncertainties analysed. In addition to detailed computer models, a very simple model (the 'Uniform World Model') is presented, enabling readers to make estimates for cases where no results are available. Published results for electricity, waste treatment and transport are reviewed, with a thorough discussion of policy implications. This book will appeal to a broad mix of academics, graduate students and practitioners in government and industry working on cost-benefit analysis, environmental impact analysis and environmental policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139949408
• Artikelnr.: 53072860

Autorenporträt

Ari Rabl obtained his PhD in physics at the University of California, Berkeley and worked for many years as research scientist for energy technologies at Argonne, NREL and Princeton University. He moved to the École des Mines de Paris as Senior Scientist at the Centre Energétique et Procédés until his retirement in 2007, and now continues to work as a consultant. For the last 20 years, his work has focused on environmental impacts and costs of pollution. He is one of the principal participants of the ExternE Project series (External Costs of Energy) of the European Commission DG Research, for which he has co-ordinated several research projects.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Tools for environmental impact and damage assessment
3. Exposure-response functions for health impacts
4. Impacts of air pollution on building materials
5. Agriculture, forests and ecosystems
6. Other impacts
7. Atmospheric dispersion of pollutants
8. Multimedia pathways
9. Monetary valuation
10. The costs of climate change
11. Uncertainty of damage costs
12. Key assumptions and results for cost per kg of pollutant
13. Results for power plants
14. Results for waste treatment
15. Results for transport
16. Lessons for policy makers
Appendix A. Nomenclature, symbols, units and conversion factors
Appendix B. Description of the RiskPoll software
Appendix C. Equations for multimedia model of Chapter 5
Index.