The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador
In 2010, the Municipality of Cuenca, through its environmental management commission (EMC), and the World Bank, through the environment and natural resources department, started a collaboration targeted towards strengthening EMC’s capacity to bette...
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SANITATION RISKS CARBON CONTENT AIRCRAFT NOISE TRAFFIC CONGESTION PEOPLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION CARBON DIOXIDE FOSSIL FUELS STROKE PASSENGERS AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS EMISSION LEVEL PREVENTION VEHICLES MORBIDITY FUEL QUALITY COMMUNITY HEALTH CAR OWNERSHIP EMISSIONS ELASTICITY HIGH- TRAFFIC AREAS NOISE EMISSION DEATH GASOLINE POLLUTION EXPOSURE TRAFFIC NOISE HEALTH TRAFFIC HYPERTENSION POLLUTION DAMAGES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AIR GREENHOUSE GAS VEHICLE USE PUBLIC HEALTH LIFE EXPECTANCY HOSPITALIZATION RADIATION KNOWLEDGE COST EFFECTIVENESS AIR POLLUTANTS VEHICLE DIETS TRANSPORT ECONOMICS ROAD CRASHES COSTS AIR POLLUTION VENTILATION TRANSPORT SMOKING INTERVENTION POPULATION GROWTH PASSENGERS PER VEHICLE MODE OF TRANSPORT MOBILITY EXTERNALITIES HEALTH MANAGEMENT OBSERVATION PITS POLLUTION AIR TRAFFIC FUELS MORTALITY INJURY NOISE EXPOSURE TRAFFIC CRASHES INFRASTRUCTURE BUSES BUS TRANSPORT BUS EMISSION INITIATIVES CONGESTION YOUNG ADULTS WORKERS TRANSPORT CHOICES TRANSIT CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AGED GASOLINE VEHICLES CAR TRANSPORT SOLVENTS VEHICLE FLEET POLLUTION IMPACTS CARS AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION ELASTICITIES HEALTH EFFECTS MEANS OF TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS HYGIENE MOTOR VEHICLE POPULATION DENSITY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES MOTOR VEHICLES PUBLIC TRANSPORT COHORT STUDIES DIESEL VEHICLES AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS MEASUREMENT ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE CARBON MONOXIDE WORKSHOPS AIRCRAFT STREETS INFANT HEALTH SLEEPING DISORDERS QUALITY OF LIFE RISK FACTORS CAR SPRAWL WEIGHT AIR POLLUTANT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES CHILDREN TAXIS OZONE VEHICLE EXHAUST FUEL NOISE POLLUTION DIESEL EMISSIONS POLLUTION CONTROL INVESTMENTS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AIRWAYS STRATEGY EPIDEMIOLOGY NOISE DIESEL URBAN SPRAWL TRANSPORT POLICIES ROAD TRAFFIC |
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SANITATION RISKS CARBON CONTENT AIRCRAFT NOISE TRAFFIC CONGESTION PEOPLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION CARBON DIOXIDE FOSSIL FUELS STROKE PASSENGERS AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS EMISSION LEVEL PREVENTION VEHICLES MORBIDITY FUEL QUALITY COMMUNITY HEALTH CAR OWNERSHIP EMISSIONS ELASTICITY HIGH- TRAFFIC AREAS NOISE EMISSION DEATH GASOLINE POLLUTION EXPOSURE TRAFFIC NOISE HEALTH TRAFFIC HYPERTENSION POLLUTION DAMAGES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AIR GREENHOUSE GAS VEHICLE USE PUBLIC HEALTH LIFE EXPECTANCY HOSPITALIZATION RADIATION KNOWLEDGE COST EFFECTIVENESS AIR POLLUTANTS VEHICLE DIETS TRANSPORT ECONOMICS ROAD CRASHES COSTS AIR POLLUTION VENTILATION TRANSPORT SMOKING INTERVENTION POPULATION GROWTH PASSENGERS PER VEHICLE MODE OF TRANSPORT MOBILITY EXTERNALITIES HEALTH MANAGEMENT OBSERVATION PITS POLLUTION AIR TRAFFIC FUELS MORTALITY INJURY NOISE EXPOSURE TRAFFIC CRASHES INFRASTRUCTURE BUSES BUS TRANSPORT BUS EMISSION INITIATIVES CONGESTION YOUNG ADULTS WORKERS TRANSPORT CHOICES TRANSIT CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AGED GASOLINE VEHICLES CAR TRANSPORT SOLVENTS VEHICLE FLEET POLLUTION IMPACTS CARS AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION ELASTICITIES HEALTH EFFECTS MEANS OF TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS HYGIENE MOTOR VEHICLE POPULATION DENSITY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES MOTOR VEHICLES PUBLIC TRANSPORT COHORT STUDIES DIESEL VEHICLES AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS MEASUREMENT ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE CARBON MONOXIDE WORKSHOPS AIRCRAFT STREETS INFANT HEALTH SLEEPING DISORDERS QUALITY OF LIFE RISK FACTORS CAR SPRAWL WEIGHT AIR POLLUTANT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES CHILDREN TAXIS OZONE VEHICLE EXHAUST FUEL NOISE POLLUTION DIESEL EMISSIONS POLLUTION CONTROL INVESTMENTS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AIRWAYS STRATEGY EPIDEMIOLOGY NOISE DIESEL URBAN SPRAWL TRANSPORT POLICIES ROAD TRAFFIC Sander, Klas Mira-Salama, Daniel Feuerbacher, Arndt The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador |
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In 2010, the Municipality of Cuenca,
through its environmental management commission (EMC), and
the World Bank, through the environment and natural
resources department, started a collaboration targeted
towards strengthening EMC’s capacity to better manage
Cuenca’s environmental assets and to provide EMC with hard
evidence and data that will serve as departing point for
decision-makers towards the formulation of public policy.
Two main areas of focus were chosen: (i) costs of
environmental degradation for Cuenca; and (ii) climate
change impacts and resilience measures for Cuenca. This
report describes the findings of the first area of focus.
This report tries to capture the main results and to
describe the assumptions and input data utilized, through a
detailed step-by-step description of an
internationally-accepted and validated methodology, an
explanation of input data needs, equations used, assumptions
made, and alternative calculation streams; and through the
demonstration of this methodology as it is applied to the
real case of air pollution in Cuenca. Analyses about the
cost of environmental degradation are often used as an
environmental priority-setting tool, because it gives the
estimated socio-economic costs of environmental degradation
(air pollution, inadequate water supply, sanitation,
hygiene, and others). In this report, the methodology was
used only for air pollution; similar studies can be
replicated for other areas in order to have a full
description of the different sources of pollution and the
subsequent costs that Cuenca is subject to. Economic
analysis (cost-benefit analysis) can be applied as a useful
tool to prioritize among these interventions options with
respect to their efficiency and cost effectiveness. Some
policy reforms may also require to understand the political
economy of reforms, for example, when taxi technology or bus
technology of private firms is to be changed. |
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Working Paper |
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Sander, Klas Mira-Salama, Daniel Feuerbacher, Arndt |
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Sander, Klas Mira-Salama, Daniel Feuerbacher, Arndt |
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Sander, Klas |
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The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador |
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The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador |
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The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador |
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The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador |
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The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador |
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cost of air pollution : a case study for the city of cuenca, ecuador |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC |
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2015 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/24862286/cost-air-pollution-case-study-city-cuenca-ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22579 |
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okr-10986-225792021-04-23T14:04:09Z The Cost of Air Pollution : A Case Study for the City of Cuenca, Ecuador Sander, Klas Mira-Salama, Daniel Feuerbacher, Arndt SANITATION RISKS CARBON CONTENT AIRCRAFT NOISE TRAFFIC CONGESTION PEOPLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION CARBON DIOXIDE FOSSIL FUELS STROKE PASSENGERS AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS EMISSION LEVEL PREVENTION VEHICLES MORBIDITY FUEL QUALITY COMMUNITY HEALTH CAR OWNERSHIP EMISSIONS ELASTICITY HIGH- TRAFFIC AREAS NOISE EMISSION DEATH GASOLINE POLLUTION EXPOSURE TRAFFIC NOISE HEALTH TRAFFIC HYPERTENSION POLLUTION DAMAGES ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AIR GREENHOUSE GAS VEHICLE USE PUBLIC HEALTH LIFE EXPECTANCY HOSPITALIZATION RADIATION KNOWLEDGE COST EFFECTIVENESS AIR POLLUTANTS VEHICLE DIETS TRANSPORT ECONOMICS ROAD CRASHES COSTS AIR POLLUTION VENTILATION TRANSPORT SMOKING INTERVENTION POPULATION GROWTH PASSENGERS PER VEHICLE MODE OF TRANSPORT MOBILITY EXTERNALITIES HEALTH MANAGEMENT OBSERVATION PITS POLLUTION AIR TRAFFIC FUELS MORTALITY INJURY NOISE EXPOSURE TRAFFIC CRASHES INFRASTRUCTURE BUSES BUS TRANSPORT BUS EMISSION INITIATIVES CONGESTION YOUNG ADULTS WORKERS TRANSPORT CHOICES TRANSIT CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AGED GASOLINE VEHICLES CAR TRANSPORT SOLVENTS VEHICLE FLEET POLLUTION IMPACTS CARS AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION ELASTICITIES HEALTH EFFECTS MEANS OF TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS HYGIENE MOTOR VEHICLE POPULATION DENSITY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES MOTOR VEHICLES PUBLIC TRANSPORT COHORT STUDIES DIESEL VEHICLES AMBIENT CONCENTRATIONS MEASUREMENT ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE CARBON MONOXIDE WORKSHOPS AIRCRAFT STREETS INFANT HEALTH SLEEPING DISORDERS QUALITY OF LIFE RISK FACTORS CAR SPRAWL WEIGHT AIR POLLUTANT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES CHILDREN TAXIS OZONE VEHICLE EXHAUST FUEL NOISE POLLUTION DIESEL EMISSIONS POLLUTION CONTROL INVESTMENTS COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AIRWAYS STRATEGY EPIDEMIOLOGY NOISE DIESEL URBAN SPRAWL TRANSPORT POLICIES ROAD TRAFFIC In 2010, the Municipality of Cuenca, through its environmental management commission (EMC), and the World Bank, through the environment and natural resources department, started a collaboration targeted towards strengthening EMC’s capacity to better manage Cuenca’s environmental assets and to provide EMC with hard evidence and data that will serve as departing point for decision-makers towards the formulation of public policy. Two main areas of focus were chosen: (i) costs of environmental degradation for Cuenca; and (ii) climate change impacts and resilience measures for Cuenca. This report describes the findings of the first area of focus. This report tries to capture the main results and to describe the assumptions and input data utilized, through a detailed step-by-step description of an internationally-accepted and validated methodology, an explanation of input data needs, equations used, assumptions made, and alternative calculation streams; and through the demonstration of this methodology as it is applied to the real case of air pollution in Cuenca. Analyses about the cost of environmental degradation are often used as an environmental priority-setting tool, because it gives the estimated socio-economic costs of environmental degradation (air pollution, inadequate water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and others). In this report, the methodology was used only for air pollution; similar studies can be replicated for other areas in order to have a full description of the different sources of pollution and the subsequent costs that Cuenca is subject to. Economic analysis (cost-benefit analysis) can be applied as a useful tool to prioritize among these interventions options with respect to their efficiency and cost effectiveness. Some policy reforms may also require to understand the political economy of reforms, for example, when taxi technology or bus technology of private firms is to be changed. 2015-09-08T16:48:30Z 2015-09-08T16:48:30Z 2015-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/24862286/cost-air-pollution-case-study-city-cuenca-ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22579 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Ecuador |