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3 English Summary
3.1 Background and Purpose
Air pollution has significant negative effects on human health and wellbeing
and this has significant socio-economic consequences.
The purpose of the project is to calculate the health impacts and external
costs related to air pollution in the Municipalities of Copenhagen and
Frederiksberg using the integrated model system EVA (Economic Valuation
of Air pollution). The EVA-system calculates health impacts and related
external costs based on information on locations of air pollution sources, the
dispersion of air pollution and related population exposure, dose-response
relationship between exposure and health effects, and valuation of health
effects, also called external costs related to health effects of air pollution.
3.2 The study
Health effects and related external costs are first calculated for the total air
pollution in the Copenhagen metropolitan area (approx. 1.8 million inh.)
with separate estimates for the Municipalities of Copenhagen and
Frederiksberg (approx. 0.7 million inh.). The total air pollution is a result of
all sources in the Copenhagen metropolitan area and all other sources in
Denmark and abroad. This gives a picture of how air pollution contributes
to health impacts whether it's from local sources in Copenhagen or other
sources.
Additionally, the calculations are carried out for each major type of emission
source in Copenhagen providing the contribution from each source within
the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg which are the sources
that the cities are able to regulate. Emissions used for the calculation are
equivalent to those used in the report "Kildebidrag til sundhedsskadelig
luftforurening i København" (Jensen et al. 2013).
The health impacts and associated external costs are first calculated for the
Copenhagen metropolitan area based on emissions from the municipalities
of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg and the impacts are distributed to the
different emission sources. Then similar calculations are performed but only
including impacts within the municipalities of Copenhagen and
Frederiksberg and based on local emissions within these two municipalities.
The different calculations are summarized in Table 3.1.