Major factors influencing the health impacts from controlling air pollutants with nonlinear chemistry: An application to China

Risk Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 683-697

  Zhou, Ying ^a   Hammitt, James ^b,c   Fu, Joshua S ^d   Gao, Yang ^d   Liu, Yang ^a   Levy, Jonathan I ^e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR RISK ANALYSIS   (United States)

^c TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^d University of Tennessee   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; CMAQ; Health risk; Ozone

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EMISSION CONTROL; HEALTH RISKS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CHINA; CMAQ; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITIES; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES;

HEALTH;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION CONTROL; HEALTH IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MEGACITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL POLICY;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS;

EID: 84897998971     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/risa.12106     Document Type: Article

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