INTRODUCTION .......................................... 319 METHODS TO ESTIMATE BENEFITS ........................... 320 ESTIMATING THE BENEFITS OF ABATEMENT USING THE DIRECT METHOD ........................................ 322 Local or National Estimates? ................................. 322 Estimating the Health Effects of Air Pollution ...................... 323 Estimation of the Marginal Be...

This case study reviews a GEF/World Bank-supported rural electrification project involving SHS dissemination via exclusive concessions in Argentina. The case study focuses on aspects of the project that are most relevant to carbon abatement. Since the Argentina project will receive grant funding under the GEF’s climate change portfolio, certain carbon abatement issues are addressed in GEF and W...

Exposure to transportation noise is a highly prevalent health burden in urban areas. Social-spatially unequal distributions of exposure can contribute inequalities (distributional environmental justice). Noise action planning according the EU Environmental Directive instrument for abatement at local level. In this context, public participation terms procedural justice becomes relevant. Socio-sp...

We tested the hypothesis that day-biting mosquitoes contribute to child obesity by reducing opportunities for summer outdoor play. The influence of Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) prevalence on child outdoor physical activity was compared in 2 matched urban communities, one treated for mosquito abatement and one untreated. More time was spent outdoors by children where abatement took pl...

This paper employs analytical and numerical general equilibrium models to examine the costs of achieving pollution reductions under a range of environmental policy instruments in a second-best setting with pre-existing factor taxes. We compare the costs and overall efficiency impacts of emissions taxes, emissions quotas, fuels taxes, performance standards, and mandated technologies, and explore...

An advanced European detector is currently considered. A strong R&D program will be necessary to improve the actual sensitivity of VIRGO and GEO. Naturally such effort must aim to optimize detection, given limited budget and manpower. Among sources, coalescing binaries appear among the most interesting and known. Thus, improvements in signal to noise ratio (S/N) by noise abatement in VIRGO, for...

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to facilitate the calculation of relevance and noise abatement in information research systems in Arabic language. Our method is to remove morphosemantic ambiguity due to agglutination and lack of vocalization of the Arabic words. To do, we have proposed to transform words to semantic gene. The latter represent an accurate determination of the word mea...

Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) procedures can be effective at reducing aircraft noise in the vicinity of airports. The human factors implications for the air traffic controller of transitioning from conventional to CDA procedures are addressed in this paper. Different types of CDA procedures are introduced and models are developed of the controller tasks undertaken during current approach op...