Title :
Notice of Retraction
An Analysis of Health Loss due to PM10 in the Counties in Central China
Author :
Jiuchang Wei ; Dingtao Zhao ; Shoufu Lin ; Lei Shi
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China
Abstract :
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
This paper estimates the health loss due to PM10 via the impacts pathway approach used for ExternE Project in the counties in Central China in 2006. The estimation results show that the external costs were 55.38 billion Yuan, amounting for 2.26 percent of GDP in Central China in 2006. The health loss contributed to the air pollutants have exceeded the meaning of economic costs, also implicated the level of social justice and society security in the counties in Central China.
Keywords :
air pollution; health and safety; Central China; ExternE Project; air pollutants; economic costs; health loss; impact pathway approach; particulate matter; social justice; society security; Air pollution; Cost accounting; Economic indicators; Environmental economics; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Industrial pollution; Local government; Power generation economics; Project management; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2901-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162309
