ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF REDUCING PARTICULATE AND SULFATE EMISSIONS FROM THE CEMENT INDUSTRY IN LEBANON

Mutasem El-Fadel (), Rana Kobrossi Zbeidy () and Marc Metni ()
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Mutasem El-Fadel: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut Bliss Street, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut, Lebanon
Rana Kobrossi Zbeidy: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut Bliss Street, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut, Lebanon
Marc Metni: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut Bliss Street, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut, Lebanon

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), 2003, vol. 05, issue 01, 99-120

Abstract: The cement industry constitutes a major source of air pollution and its environmental impacts have historically raised considerable public concern. This paper presents a health-based economic assessment of reducing particulate and sulfate emissions from a cement industrial complex. The economic valuation of the potential decrease in mortality and morbidity rates due to emissions reduction was conducted using a human capital approach and a cost of illness approach, respectively.

Keywords: Cement industry; particulate matter; sulfate; health impacts; economic valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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