The Mortality Cost of Particulate Matter Due to Emissions in the Stockholm Area: An Investigation into Harmfulness, Sources and the Geographical Dimension of Their Impact

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• Creators:
  Nerhagen, Lena ; Bergstrom, Robert ; Forsberg, Bertil ; Johansson, Christer ; Eneroth, Kristina
• Corporate Creators:
  Statens vag- och transportforskningsinstitut (Sweden)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Climate change
  • Air pollution
  • Exhaust gases
  • Electric power plants
  • Particulates
  • Externalities
  • Economic impacts
  • Public health
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Nitric oxide
• Publication/ Report Number:
  VTI rapport 635A
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Stockholm (Sweden) ; Sweden ; Europe
• Corporate Publisher:
  Statens vag-och transportforskningsinstitut (Sweden)
• Abstract:
  The findings in this report are that there is not an one-to-one correspondence between emissions and costs. The reason for this is that the cost is based on health impacts which in turn are related to population exposure. Combustion particulate matter (PM) from road traffic and residential heating gives rise to higher cost than for example power plants, although the emissions are smaller, since their emissions are released in close proximity to people's place of residentce. Regarding non-exhaust PM (mainly road wear) the estimated cost is lower than that for combustion PM (exhaust emissions) from road traffic. This depends on the use of different exposure-response functions where non-exhaust PM is considered to have less impact on mortality. The results also show that the emissions from the sources in Stockholm also have an influence on the population exposure in the rest of Sweden and in Europe. This is due to the formation of secondary PM from gaseous pollutants, mainly NOx. For power plants this estimated cost is similar to that for the health impacts that occur locally in Stockholm for this source.
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• Collection(s):
  Transportation Resilience and Vulnerability Collection
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