Produce economic damages associated with premature mortality attributable to O3 (M6M) exposure based on the IER functions from Jerret et al (2009), consistent with the GBD 2016 study. The economic valuation takes as a base value the widely accepted Value of Statistical Life (VSL) of the OECD for 2005. This value, according to the literature ranges between US$1.8 and $4.5 million. The calculations for all regions are based on the “unit value transfer approach” which adjusts the VSL according to their GDP and GDP growth rates. (Markandya et al 2018)

m3_get_o3_ecoloss_vsl(
  db_path = NULL,
  query_path = "./inst/extdata",
  db_name = NULL,
  prj_name = NULL,
  prj = NULL,
  rdata_name = NULL,
  scen_name,
  ssp = "SSP2",
  final_db_year = 2100,
  mort_model = "Jerret2009",
  Damage_vsl_range = "VSL_med",
  inc_elas_vsl = 0.8,
  queries = "queries_rfasst.xml",
  saveOutput = T,
  map = F,
  anim = T,
  recompute = F
)

Source

Jerrett, M., Burnett, R.T., Pope III, C.A., Ito, K., Thurston, G., Krewski, D., Shi, Y., Calle, E. and Thun, M., 2009. Long-term ozone exposure and mortality. New England Journal of Medicine, 360(11), pp.1085-1095.//// Markandya, A., Sampedro, J., Smith, S.J., Van Dingenen, R., Pizarro-Irizar, C., Arto, I. and González-Eguino, M., 2018. Health co-benefits from air pollution and mitigation costs of the Paris Agreement: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2(3), pp.e126-e133.

Arguments

db_path

Path to the GCAM database

query_path

Path to the query file

db_name

Name of the GCAM database

prj_name

Name of the rgcam project. This can be an existing project, or, if not, this will be the name

prj

rgcam loaded project

rdata_name

Name of the RData file. It must contain the queries in a list

scen_name

Vector names of the GCAM scenarios to be processed

ssp

Set the ssp narrative associated to the GCAM scenario. c("SSP1","SSP2","SSP3","SSP4","SSP5"). By default is SSP2

final_db_year

Final year in the GCAM database (this allows to process databases with user-defined "stop periods")

mort_model

Select the health function (GBD2016 or Jerret2009). By default = Jerret2009

Damage_vsl_range

Select the VSL to calculate the damages (VSL_med, VSL_low, or VSL_high). By default = VSL_med

inc_elas_vsl

Select the income elasticity. Normally c(0.8, 1, 1.2). By default = 0.8

queries

Name of the GCAM query file. The file by default includes the queries required to run rfasst

saveOutput

Writes the emission files.By default=T

map

Produce the maps. By default=F

anim

If set to T, produces multi-year animations. By default=T

recompute

If set to T, recomputes the function output. Otherwise, if the output was already computed once, it uses that value and avoids repeating computations. By default=F

Value

Economic damages associated with mortality attributable to O3 (M6M) exposure for each TM5-FASST regions for all years (Million$2015). The list of countries that form each region and the full name of the region can be found in Table S2.2 in the TM5-FASST documentation paper: Van Dingenen, R., Dentener, F., Crippa, M., Leitao, J., Marmer, E., Rao, S., Solazzo, E. and Valentini, L., 2018. TM5-FASST: a global atmospheric source-receptor model for rapid impact analysis of emission changes on air quality and short-lived climate pollutants. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18(21), pp.16173-16211.