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monetize the full damages caused by wildfires when analyzing various fire management policies. We estimate the economic costs … of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the … study uses data from the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County’s modern history, the Station Fire of 2009. Our results show …
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health impacts from air pollution in Tianjin. Although China has made dramatic economic progress in recent years, air … pollution continues to be the most visible environmental problem and imposes significant health and economic costs on society …. Using data on pollutant concentrations and population, the study estimates the economic costs of health-related effects due …
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En este estudio estimamos el efecto causal de la contaminación atmosférica sobre la incidencia de bajas laborales por enfermedad en un panel representativo de asalariados afiliados a la Seguridad Social en España. Usando más de 100 millones de observaciones semanales de individuos en el...
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Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2041
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of air pollution on health and mortality. There is also some evidence that air ... …
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) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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Watershed management decision making is a complex process. Cooperation and communication among federal, state, and local stakeholders is required while balancing biophysical and socioeconomic concerns. The public is taking part in environmental decisions, and the need for technology transfer...
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Decision support systems (DSS), also known as forest resource information systems, focus on providing forest managers information to make better decisions. DSS in forestry organizations have evolved from the integration of geographic information systems and database management systems with...
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Dramatic advances in data management have been made as a result of the Paperless FRMAC initiative, sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Emergency Response (NA-42). The FRMAC (Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center) is the hub for allradiological monitoring and the production of data...
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