The economic cost of environmental impacts on human health

(ASSIGNMENT# 02………SEMESTER FALLL- 2020)

Submission Date (November 02, 2020)

NAME OF THE STUDENT……..SARA ZIA ULLAH

ROLL # 19011561-065

Environmental economics ( ES-205)

BSES (3RD SEM ) Section B

Submitted to Sir Umar Hayat

Department of Environmental science

UNIVERISTY OF GUJRAT
Content

 Introduction
 Environment and economic growth
 Measuring the economic cost of environmental impact
 The economic of pollution
 The human and financial cost of pollution
 Way to reduce environmental impact.
The economic cost of environmental impacts on human health
Introduction

Environmental costs are costs related to the actual weakening of ordinary resources before possible due to
commercial deeds. An environmental impact is characterized as any environmental change, whether
adverse or beneficial, resulting from the activities, goods or services of a facility. In other words, it is the
effect on the environment that people's actions have. For example, when volatile organic compounds are
released into the atmosphere, pollution in the form of smog is the effect or effects, which is negative in
this case. As a person picking up litter can have a positive effect on the litter, it can go the other direction.

Environment and Economic Growth

There are a number of connation’s between the economy and the atmosphere: the ecosystem provides
energy for the economy and acts as a waste and emissions drain. Natural resources are important inputs
for growth in many industries, while production and use also lead to pollution and other pressures on the
environment. Security of the ecosystem itself leads to economic development. Someone develops and
sells the technology for air pollution control that we place on power plants and motor vehicles. ... All of
the benefits to human health are clean air and water, nutritious food and protected nature and result in
much more economic benefits than economic costs. In exchange, by reducing resource quantity and
quality or due to health effects, etc., low environmental quality affects economic growth and well-being.
In this context , environmental policies would curb the economy's negative environmental feedback (and
vice versa). But how efficient they are is the subject of a lot of debate and depends on how they are
designed and executed, and whether they create a net profit or a net cost to society. While the main
mechanisms connecting the economy and the environment are qualitatively recognized, the lack of clear
metrics to measure the costs and benefits of policy changes or a more general lack of empirical evidence
also hinders environmental policy assessments. The economic costs of the biophysical and environmental
consequences of policy inaction and the associated benefits of new policies are sometimes not quantified.
Therefore, economic discussions always overshadow the very apparent expense of policy action. Thus, it
is important to improve the toolkits that economists use to assess the benefits of environmental policies.

Measuring the economic cost of environmental impacts on human health

Here is the economic cost of the impression that wellbeing occurs in a filthy climate. That one is not
personally misplaced by the rate of subsists, but also the charge of centuries survived by a fragility,
misplaced existences of effort or education, chronic diseases to care. On 27-28 May 2014, 25 Air Class,
Health Finance and Ecological Disciplines, as well as EU and Public Civilization legislatures met in
Berlin , Germany, to assess this price and the leading developer of the tumbling strategy by advancing
preclusion.

Environmental hazards affect human health care costs

Environmental hazards raise the risk of cancer, asthma, heart disease, and countless other diseases. Such
risks can be corporeal, such as effluence, lethal elements, and impurities of nutrition, or they can be
culture, such as dangerous jobs, circumstances of unfortunate coverage, urban sprawl, and deficiency.
The atmosphere can encourage the success and motivation of individuals to act. The atmosphere will
muse the mood. For instance, the results of some research training disclose that rooms with happy light,
normal and fake in collaboration, can advance health outcomes such as unhappiness, anxiety , and sleep.
Rendering to Trepanned, experience with conservation risks may directly affect the well-being of an
individual and ramblingly increase well-being maintenance charges in cooperation advanced in addition
to emerging nations. He acquired sharply that in 2008, in every hundreds of U.S. wellbei, the U.S. spent
$76.6 billion on household conservation derivation sicknesses, or approximately 3.5 billion in every
hundreds of U.S. well-being. In the agricultural world, the annual amounts associated with toddler lead
acquaintance amounted to $1 trillion, which crudely corresponds to 1.2 percent of inclusive unpolished
home artefacts. In 2010, the incidence of premature births that can be attracted to air pollution encounters,
particularly in height in developing nations similar to India and China, was correlated with a social cost of
$26 billion internationally. Inappropriately, these social costs are not normal across all segments of
society correspondingly. Low-income residents, constructive cultural societies and subcategories are
bound by these conservation acquaintances to be overwhelmingly artificial and, consequently, economic
costs are disproportionately borne by these same segments of society.

The economics of pollution

Environmental damage may result from economic development. For all countries, whether high-income
or low-income, and whether their frugalities are market-related or command-oriented, this change
increases. A negative externality is waste. The social costs of production are explained by economists by
demand and supply. The social costs include the independent costs of the company's professional
production and the external costs of effluence acknowledged by society. As a spin-off of the metals,
plastics, elements, and energy used in the manufacture of refrigerators, pollution is generated. Let’s
assume that if these contaminants were released into the air and water, the cost per refrigerator produced
would be $100. These costs may occur due to human health complaints, effects on property values, loss
of wildlife habitat, reduction of the possibility of recreation, or other adverse impacts.
Social, economic and environmental impacts of renewable energy systems

Conservative oil , coal, and natural gas-based energy bases must prove to be successful drivers of
economic growth, but at the same time detrimental to the situation and to human well-being. In this paper,
the social , economic and conservation impacts of the renewable energy system have been discussed.

How sustainable agriculture can address the environmental and human health harms of industrial
agriculture

Fossil fuel, water, and topsoil are consumed at untenable rates by the industrial agriculture system. It
supports ample forms of conservation poverty, plus contamination of air and water, soil erosion,
diminishing biodiversity, and deaths from fish. Meat production underwrites these difficulties
unreasonably, partially because nursing grain to cattle to harvest meat — as an alternative to nursing it
unswervingly to humans — contains a significant loss of energy, rendering animal farming more stringent
in supply than other types of food production. Conservation and public health issues are created by the
development of plant-style animal agriculture, with contamination from the high attention of wilderness
animals and the widespread use of antibiotics, which can negotiate their effectiveness in therapeutic use.
In many of the chronic deteriorating diseases that trouble development and newly changing societies,
primarily vascular disease and some cancers, animal fat is taken up at the feasting end. With respect to
human wellbeing, bo

The Human and Financial Cost of Pollution

In 2015, air, water and soil pollution-induced diseases were responsible for 9 million premature deaths,
which is 16 percent of all global deaths. More people are killed by exposure to polluted air , water and
soil than by smoking, starvation, natural disasters , war, AIDS, or malaria. Many of these deaths occurred
in developing nations (92 percent). The advantages of pollution reduction greatly outweigh the costs in
wealthier countries that have managed to minimise pollution. According to this Directive, the global
economic costs of smog, estimated at 6.2% of global economic output, are immense. In addition, the
notion of poisoning the world is bad for individuals, and benefits are not completely shared. While in the
half-century-long fight to clean up our climate, America has been a pioneer, the anti-regulatory
enthusiasts now running the supervisory branch of this country are doing their utmost to erase the
development. If we want to build an economy that is industrious enough to bring the whole biosphere out
of poverty and sustain the economy,

Ways to Reduce Environmental impact

By using the Carbon Footprint Calculator, you can estimate the environmental effects, Utilize electricity
more effectively to control environment impact and also install renewable sources on other hand travel
les, conserve water and apply the polices of reduces reuse and recycle.

References

 https://www.paconferenceforwomen.org/green-business-7-ways-reduce-environmental-footprint/
 http://www.oecd.org/economy/greeneco/global-forum-on-environment-2016.htm
 https://iussp.org/sites/default/files/event_call_for_papers/Session209_02_Becker.pdf