The environmental dimension of quality of life
Environmental induced problems & related costs (L) (e.g. years of healthy life lost from degraded environmental conditions) Environmental health and risks
• Population exposure to air pollution (*) (S/M).
Data sources and notes
Internationally comparable measures of population exposure to air pollution can be derived from satellite-based measurements for PM2.5 (but less precise than ground-based measurements). Urban-population-weighted PM10 concentrations (country aggregates, annual means), available from the World Bank (all EaP countries); (monitoring techniques, sampling frequencies and location of monitoring stations vary by country and over time).
policy Perspectives
OECD: Measuring the transformation of the economy - green growth Indicators
National ground-based measurements of PM2.5, PM10 and O3, available as per standards of the UNECE environmental indicators (all EaP countries). Country profiles of environmentally induced health problems (all EaP countries) as per the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, available from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Air pollution including by PM2.5 (all EaP countries, up to 2013), also available from World Bank.
Exposure to natural or industrial risks and related economic losses (L)
Access to sewage treatment and drinking water (S) Environmental services and amenities
• Population connected to sewage treatment (at least secondary, in relation to optimal connection rate) • Population with sustainable access to safe drinking water
Share of population connected to sewage treatment plants, available (all EaP countries) in the UNSD database (not always up-to-date, information on level of treatment partial). Estimates of share of population using different sources of drinking water and share of the population with access to improved sanitation facilities, available from the WHO/United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation.
The data sources are based on OECD (forthcoming) Measuring The Green Transformation Of The Economy: Green Growth Indicators Guide, EaP GREEN. Based on OECD (2014), S = Short term, M= Medium term, L = Long term. * proxy indicator when the main indicators are not available.
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