Lavaine, Emmanuelle, Majerus, Philippe and Treich, Nicolas (2020) Health, air pollution and animal agriculture. TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1158, Toulouse

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Abstract

Although animal agriculture is critical to the subsistence of smallholders in some poor countries, the global detrimental impact of animal farming is now both well documented and overwhelming. Animal farming is a primary cause of deforestation (De Sy et al., 2015), biodiversity loss (Machovina et al., 2015), antibioresistance (O’Neill, 2015) and infectious diseases emergence and amplification (Rohr et al., 2019). Moreover, it contributes significantly to water pollution, water scarcity and climate change (Godfray et al., 2018; Poore & Nemecek, 2018; Springmann et al., 2017).
Additionally, the exploitation of farmed animals, especially in its widespread intensive forms, raises various moral issues. In this paper, we discuss another impact of animal farming, that on air pollution and in turn on human health. While this impact is also potentially considerable, we stress that it has been largely overlooked by regulators as well as by researchers, and in particular by
economists.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: November 2020
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 26 Nov 2020 14:37
Last Modified: 08 Jan 2021 13:28
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:124874
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/41882
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