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This study attempts a risk-benefit analysis of the Japanese government decision of the prohibition of the mercury electrode process used for production of caustic soda in 1973. The reduction in human health risk and the costs incurred due to the decision are evaluated, on the basis of which an implicit value of its benefit-risk (BRR) ratio is estimated. Human health risk is evaluated in terms of loss of life expectancy, which enables us to quantify and compare human health risks, irrespective of cancer or noncancer toxic risks. The value of BRR of the decision is calculated to be 570 million yen, approximately U.S. $5.7 million, per life-year saved. Comparing the BRR values of a couple of other policies enacted or proposed in Japan, ranging from 24 to 45 million yen per life-year saved, its value is very high. This result implies that the decision in study is not cost-effective. 相似文献
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The cost-effectiveness of life-saving interventions in Japan. Do chemical regulations cost too much?
This paper compares the cost-effectiveness of life-saving interventions in Japan, based on information collected from the health, safety and environmental literature. More than 50 life-saving interventions are analyzed. Cost-effectiveness is defined as the cost per life-year saved or as the cost per quality-adjusted life-year saved. Finding a large cost-effectiveness disparity between chemical controls and health care intervention, we raise the question of whether chemical regulations cost society too much. We point out the limitations of this study and propose a way to improve the incorporation of morbidity effects in cost-effectiveness analysis. 相似文献
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Yasuaki Hijioka Saneyuki Takano Kazutaka Oka Minoru Yoshikawa Arata Ichihashi Kenshi Baba Sawako Ishiwatari 《Regional Environmental Change》2016,16(4):967-978
The impacts of climate change are apparent in various regions of the world. Even though climate change may have a positive effect, it is anticipated that there will be many severely negative effects on human and natural resources in the future. Therefore, in addition to the need for stronger promotion of mitigation policies, it is urgently necessary to study and implement adaptation policies over the longer term to prepare for the possible negative impact of climate change. To implement climate change adaptation measures rapidly in Japan, it would seem practical and effective to make good use of the various countermeasures already promoted by both the national and the local governments for many sectors such as disaster prevention, environmental management, food production, and protection of the nation’s health. These countermeasures are considered to have potential for effecting climate change adaptation. This study, focusing on adaptation to climate change negative impacts, investigates to what extent the existing policies of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government could contribute to climate change adaptation, based on a comprehensive examination of targeted fields and indicators for which adaptation policies could be pursued. The results showed many of the existing policies could be useful for adaptation to climate change in many sectors. Furthermore, less than half of these policies need to take future climate change into account in order to contribute to climate change adaptation. This study proposes three basic steps that consider future climate change and local governmental propositions for the rapid implementation of adaptation policies in Japan. 相似文献
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Kazuki Morita Muxing Guo Norio Oka Nobuo Sano 《Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management》2002,4(2):93-101
This research focused on the treatment of steel-making slags to recycle and recover iron and phosphorus. The carbothermal
reduction behavior of both synthesized and factory steel-making slag in microwave irradiation was investigated. The slags
were mixed with graphite powder and heated to a temperature higher than 1873 K to precipitate a lump of Fe–C alloy with a
diameter of 2–8 mm. The larger the carbon equivalent (Ceq, defined in the text), the higher the fractional reduction of iron and phosphorus. An increase in the SiO2 content of slag led to a considerable improvement in the reduction for both iron and phosphorus because of the improvement
in the fluidity of the slags and an increase in the activity coefficient of P2O5 in the slags. The extraction behavior of phosphorus from Fe–P–Csatd alloy was also investigated at 1473 K by carbonate flux treatment. For all the experiments with a processing time longer
than 10 min, the phosphorus in the fluxes could be concentrated to more than 9% (w/w) showing that it could be used as a phosphorus
resource. Compared with K2CO3 flux treatment, that using Na2CO3 was more effective for the extraction of phosphorus, and this was attributed to the lower evaporation of Na2CO3. Finally, a recycling scheme for steel-making slag is proposed.
Received: March 16, 2001 / Accepted: November 12, 2001 相似文献
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