ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND GLOBAL HEALTH

Author:

Ezzati Majid1,Bailis Robert2,Kammen Daniel M.2,Holloway Tracey3,Price Lynn4,Cifuentes Luis A.5,Barnes Brendon6,Chaurey Akanksha7,Dhanapala Kiran N.8

Affiliation:

1. Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;

2. Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720;,

3. Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53726;

4. E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720;

5. Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago 6904411, Chile;

6. Medical Research Council of South Africa, Houghton 2041, South Africa;

7. Energy-Environment Technology Division, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi 110003, India;

8. Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506;

Abstract

▪ Abstract  Energy and energy technologies have a central role in social and economic development at all scales, from household and community to regional and national. Among its welfare effects, energy is closely linked with public health both positively and negatively, the latter through environmental pollution and degradation. We review the current research on how energy use and energy technologies influence public health, emphasizing the risks associated with indoor and ambient air pollution from energy use, and the links between the local and global environmental health impacts of energy use. This review illustrates that, despite their large public health implications, most energy policies and programs in the developing world are fundamentally treated as components of overall economic development, without explicit assessment of their health benefits or hazards. Closer integration of health in energy management can facilitate the development of policies and programs that increase welfare and minimize negative health outcomes. Renewable energy technologies are used as an example of how an integrated energy-health approach can be used in policy analysis and formulation.

Publisher

Annual Reviews

Subject

General Environmental Science

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