Open AccessThe value of health damage due to sulphur dioxide emissions from coal‐fired electricity generation in NSW and implications for pollution licences
Author(s) -
Ewald Ben
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/1753-6405.12785
Subject(s) - air pollution , pollution , electricity , sulfur dioxide , environmental science , environmental health , value (mathematics) , coal mining , natural resource economics , coal , business , environmental protection , waste management , medicine , engineering , economics , chemistry , computer science , inorganic chemistry , ecology , organic chemistry , machine learning , electrical engineering , biology
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 227 © 2018 The Authors This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. The health impacts of air pollution are increasingly recognised, with the main sources being transport, electricity generation and biomass burning. There is extensive public debate about the transition of the electricity sector away from coal-fired generation, but the health effects are not being heard in this debate.