Assessment of the pollution–health–economics nexus in China
<p>Serious haze can cause contaminant diseases that trigger productive labour time by raising mortality and morbidity rates in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Health studies rarely consider macroeconomic impacts of industrial interlinkages while disaster studies seldom involve air...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
| Online Access: | https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/18/14433/2018/acp-18-14433-2018.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>Serious haze can cause contaminant diseases that trigger productive
labour time by raising mortality and morbidity rates in cardiovascular and
respiratory diseases. Health studies rarely consider macroeconomic impacts of
industrial interlinkages while disaster studies seldom involve air pollution
and its health consequences. This study adopts a supply-driven input–output
model to estimate the economic loss resulted from disease-induced
working-time reduction across 30 Chinese provinces in 2012 using the most
updated Chinese multiregional input–output table. Results show a total
economic loss of CNY 398.23 billion ( ∼ 1 % of China's GDP in 2012),
with the majority coming from Eastern China and the Mid-South. The total
number of affected labourers amounts to 82.19 million. Cross-regional
economic impact analysis indicates that the Mid-South, North China, and
Eastern China entail the majority of the regional indirect loss. Indeed, most
indirect loss in North China, the Northwest and the Southwest can be
attributed to manufacturing and energy in other regions, while loss in
Eastern China, the Mid-South and the Northeast largely originate from coal
and mining in other regions. At the subindustrial level, most inner-regional
loss in North China and the Northwest originate from coal and mining, in
Eastern China and Southwest from equipment and energy, and in the Mid-South
from metal and non-metal. These findings highlight the potential role of
geographical distance in regional interlinkages and regional heterogeneity in
inner- and outer-regional loss due to distinctive regional economic
structures and dependences between the north and south.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1680-7316 1680-7324 |