Risk in Contemporary Economy (Jul 2019)

The Impact of Global Climate Change and Global Warming on Public Health and Welfare Cost From Exposure to Environmental Risks

  • Rodica Pripoaie

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 64 – 92

Abstract

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The aim of the paper is to presents the impact of global climate change and global warming on public health and welfare cost from exposure to environmental risks. The paper shows the implications of greenhouse gases on the environment with potentially damaging effects on ecosystems, biodiversity and the means of human subsistence. This study attempts to empirically examine the dynamic causal relationships between greenhouse gases, mortality rate and public health and welfare cost from exposure to environmental risks, using the time-series data for the period 1999–2016.