Air pollution damage functions and regional damage estimates

Book · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:5484145

Liu, B; Yu, E S

This book is designed to generate physical and economic damage functions by receptor for sulfur dioxide and suspended particulates for the US urban areas. It is written with the conviction that the marginal benefit and marginal cost principle can be applied to air pollution control decision making. Based on existing literature and available data on US metropolitan areas, 1970, average functions are developed for air pollution damages on human health, household soiling, materials and vegetation. Various types of air pollution damages are also estimated on a cross-section basis for the metropolitan areas included. It should be noted that the geographic damage estimates are tentative not only because the assumptions employed in the study are uncertain but also because the methodology used is still in an infant stage of development and subject to further refinement. The research delineated in this book is primarily concerned with evaluating regional economic damages to human health, material, and vegetation and of property soiling resulting from air pollution. This research also attempts to develop a more plausible exponential physical dose-response function for premature mortality and morbidity. The comparable and consistent damage loss estimates for a variety of receptors developed in this research are expected to provide a data base useful for designing national and regional pollution control strategies. The book comprises seven chapters: Introduction, Mortality and Air Pollution, Morbidity and Air Pollution, Household Soiling and Air Pollution, Material and Air Pollution, Vegetation and Air Pollution, and An Overall View and Summary.

• OSTI ID: 5484145
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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