| Authors |
Koundouri, P. and Kougea, E. |
| Title |
Air Quality Degradation: Can Economics Help in Measuring its Welfare Effects? A Review of Economic Valuation Studies |
| Abstract |
Air quality affects human�s well being in various ways. Air providing the most important life-support function sustains human health and enables the existence of all ecosystems.
Although clean air is considered to be a basic requirement for human health and well-being, economic development and population growth has resulted in a considerable deterioration of air quality. Human activities like the intensification of agriculture, industrialization, increasing energy use, the burning of fossil fuels and the increase in transportation have resulted to a rising cocktail of poisonous pollutants which impose many adverse effects on environment as a whole, our human health and life expectancy, ecosystems services, biodiversity, agricultural crops and building structures. |
| Publication Status |
Published in Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution |
| Keywords |
Air quality, degradation, welfare effects,economic valuation |
| Classification JEL |
A1,D6,Q5 |
| File |
2011.InTech.pdf (248667 bytes) |
| File-Function |
First version |
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