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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782105503321

Titolo

Estimating mortality risk reduction and economic benefits from controlling ozone air pollution [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits from Decreasing Tropospheric Ozone Exposure, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studes, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2008

ISBN

0-309-17785-5

1-281-76726-3

9786611767266

0-309-11995-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

363.7384

Soggetti

Air - Pollution - Standards - United States

Atmospheric ozone - Standards - United States

Contingent valuation

Environmental risk assessment

Health risk assessment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-203).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Overview of ambient-ozone standards development and benefits assessment -- Ambient ozone and related pollutants -- Contributions of relevant health studies to the estimation of reductions in premature mortality -- Economic valuation of reduction in mortality risk associated with ambient ozone  -- Overall conclusions and recommendations.