Estimating Mortality and Economic Costs of Particulate Air Pollution in Developing Countries: The Case of Nigeria

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-387

  Yaduma, Natina ^a   Kortelainen, Mika ^b   Wossink, Ada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Dose response function; Meta regression; Value of statistical life; Value transfer

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; COSTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; HEALTH RISKS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLLUTION CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DOSE-RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; LOW INCOME COUNTRIES; META-REGRESSION; PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION; REGRESSION METHOD; VALUE OF STATISTICAL LIVES; VALUE TRANSFERS; WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY ESTIMATES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; POLICY APPROACH; WILLINGNESS TO PAY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

NIGERIA;

EID: 84874247586     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9598-7     Document Type: Article

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