Socioeconomic burden of air pollution in China: Province-level analysis based on energy economic model

Energy Economics

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 478-489

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Ou, Xunmin ^a   Yang, Xi ^a   Qi, Tianyu ^a   Nam, Kyung Min ^b   Zhang, Da ^a,c   Zhang, Xiliang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; Computable general equilibrium; Socioeconomic burden

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; LOSSES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AIR POLLUTION IN CHINAS; CHINA; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM; ENERGY-ECONOMIC MODELING; HEALTH ASSESSMENTS; PM 2.5; REGIONAL ENERGY MODELING; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOCIOECONOMIC BURDEN; WELFARE LOSS;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; EMISSION INVENTORY; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; GUANGDONG; JIANGSU; SHANDONG; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85033554014     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2017.10.013     Document Type: Article

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