Pubblicazione scientifica

Evaluating Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Mobility

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
produzione e raccolta

RIASSUNTO

There is growing recognition that implementation of low-carbon policies in urban passenger transport has near-term health co-benefits through increased physical activity and improved air quality. Nevertheless, co-benefits and related cost reductions are often not taken into account in decision processes, likely because they are not easy to capture. In an interdisciplinary multi-model approach we address this gap, investigating the co-benefits resulting from increased physical activity and improved air quality due to climate mitigation policies for three urban areas. Additionally we take a (macro-)economic perspective, since that is the ultimate interest of policy-makers. Methodologically, we link a transport modelling tool, a transport emission model, an emission dispersion model, a health model and a macroeconomic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze three climate change mitigation scenarios. We show that higher levels of physical exercise and reduced exposure to pollutants due to mitigation measures substantially decrease morbidity and mortality. Expenditures are mainly born by the public sector but are mostly offset by the emerging co-benefits. Our macroeconomic results indicate a strong positive welfare effect, yet with slightly negative GDP and employment effects. We conclude that considering economic co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies in urban mobility can be put forward as a forceful argument for policy makers to take action.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 28/04/2018

AUTORI

WOLKINGER BRIGITTE
HAAS WILLI
BACHNER GABRIEL
WEISZ ULLI
STEININGER KARL W
HUTTER HANS-PETER
DELCOUR JENNIFER
GRIEBLER ROBERT
MITTELBACH BERNHARD
MAIER PHILIPP
REIFELTSHAMMER RAPHAEL

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

WEGENER CTR CLIMATE & GLOBAL CHANGE UNIV GRAZ
INST SOCIAL ECOLOGY ALPEN ADRIA UNIV KLAGENFURT
INST SOCIAL ECOLOGY UNIV NATURAL RESOURCES & LIFE SCIENCES VIENNA
DEPT ECONOMICS UNIV GRAZ
DEPT ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CTR PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICAL UNIV VIENNA
AUSTRIAN PUBLIC HEALTH INST GESUNDHEIT OSTERREICH GMBH STUBENRING 6 A 1010 VIENNA AUSTRIA JENNIFER DELCOUR GOEG AT JD ROBERT GRIEBLER GOEG AT RG
INST INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES & THERMODYNAMICS GRAZ UNIV TECH

RIVISTA

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(5), 880

IMPACT FACTOR

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