Book 1: Clearing the Air

A multi-component assessment by a Harvard and Tsinghua collaborative team integrates studies to estimate and compare the national health damages of ambient air pollution in China by sector. It uses these estimates to assess the effects of green tax policies on emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases, human health, and the economy. The assessment and its results and policy conclusions are presented in a comprehensive volume, Clearing the Air: The Health and Economic Damages of Air Pollution in China (Ho and Nielsen 2007, MIT Press).
 
clearing_the_air_book_coverThe research initiative of this book was led by Mun S. HO and Chris P. NIELSEN of the Harvard-China Project, advised by Dale W. JORGENSON (Harvard Department of Economics). The Tsinghua University component was led by HAO Jiming (School of Environment). Additional Harvard faculty playing key roles were Jonathan I. LEVY (now at Boston University School of Public Health) and James K. HAMMITT of the Harvard (now T.H. Chan) School of Public Health.
 
 

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