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The Costs of Air Quality Deterioration and Benefits of Air Pollution Control: Estimates of Mortality Costs for Two Pollutants in 40 US. Metropolitan Areas
Author(s) -
Liu BenChieh
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1979.tb02879.x
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , pollutant , air pollution , air quality index , particulates , environmental science , liberian dollar , air pollutants , sulfur dioxide , pollution , criteria air contaminants , environmental engineering , environmental protection , geography , business , meteorology , chemistry , ecology , archaeology , organic chemistry , finance , biology , inorganic chemistry
A bstract . Although it is still impossible to place a dollar value on human lives and on the total health effeets of air pollution , the excessive mortality costs of two air pollutants– sulfur dioxide (SO 2 and total suspended particulates (TSP)‐have been quantified for most of the 40 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. Based on 1970 data, total mortality damage for SO 2 was estimated at $887 million and for TSP at $1.044 billion. The benefit from reducing these pollutants could exceed $1.328 billion annually, a figure useful in evaluating control costs.