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Report n°4: How Much to Spend for the Protection of Health and Environment
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- Glossary and Nomenclature
Glossary and Nomenclature
As = arsenic
CBA = cost-benefit analysis
CO = carbon monoxide
CO2eq = quantity of a greenhouse gas expressed as equivalent quantity of CO2, using the GWP of the gas
Cr-VI = chromium in oxidation state 6
CRF = concentration-response function
CV = contingent valuation
Discount rate = rate r that allows comparison of monetary values incurred at different times, defined such that an amount Pn in year n has the same utility as an amount P0 = Pn (1+r)-n in year 0.
DRF = dose-response function
EC = European Commission
EPA = Environmental Protection Agency of USA
External costs = costs that arise when the social or economic activities of one group of people have an impact on another for which the first group does not fully account, e.g when a polluter does not compensate others for the damage imposed on them.
GWP = global warming potential
Hg = mercury
IPA = impact pathway analysis
ISC = Industrial Source Complex gaussian plume dispersion model
LCA = life cycle assessment
MCA = multicriteria analysis
N = nitrogen
Ni = nickel
NOx = unspecified mixture of NO and NO2
O3 = ozone
PAH = polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Pb = lead
PMd = particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter smaller than d mm
S = sulfur
sCR = slope of concentration-response function [cases/(person·yr·µg/m3)]
SOx = unspecified mixture of SO2 and SO3
UWM = uniform world model (for simplified estimation of damage costs)
vdep = deposition velocity [m/s]
VOC = volatile organic compounds.
VOLY = value of a life year
VSL = "value of statistical life"
WTP = willingness to pay
YOLL = years of life lost (reduction of life expectancy)