Executive summary Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature
death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 …

Environmental protection is now an integral part of public policies, at local, national and
global levels. In all instances, the cost and benefits of policies and projects must be carefully …

This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Small's seminal textbook Urban Transportation
Economics, co-authored with Erik T. Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas …

Natural disasters may increase in frequency and severity in the future as a result of climate
change, which is likely to have an impact on the demand for natural disaster insurance …

The income elasticity of the value per statistical life (VSL) is an important parameter for
policy analysis. Mortality risk reductions often dominate the quantified benefits of …

Ambient air pollution is one of the leading environmental risk factors to human health,
largely offsetting economic growth. This study evaluated health burden and cost associated …

We conduct, to our knowledge, the first global meta‐analysis (MA) of stated preference (SP)
surveys of mortality risk valuation. The surveys ask adults their willingness to pay (WTP) for …

Developing and fast-growing economies have some of the worse air pollution in the world,
but there is a lack of systematic evidence on the health especially morbidity impact of air …

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2005, 1.5 million people died, worldwide,
from diarrheal diseases. A separate study estimated that 70% of diarrheal diseases are …

In evaluating the appropriate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a key parameter is the
rate of substitution between wealth and mortality risk, conventionally summarized as the …