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DOI	10.3390/en13154002
	Assessment of the External Costs of Life Cycle of Coal: The Case Study of Southwestern China
	Wang, Xiaonan; Wang, Licheng; Chen, Jianping; Zhang, Shouting; Tarolli, Paolo
通讯作者	Chen, JP (通讯作者)
发表日期	2020
EISSN	1996-1073
卷号	13 期号:15
英文摘要	Coal will continue to be the main energy source in China for the immediate future, although the environmental pollution and ecological impacts of each stage in the full life cycle of coal mining, transportation, and combustion generate large quantities of external costs. The Late Permian coals in southwestern (SW) China usually contain high amounts of fluorine (F), arsenic (As), and ash, which together with high-F clays cause abnormally high levels of endemic fluorosis, As poisoning, and lung cancer in areas where coal is mined and burned. In this paper, we estimate the external costs of the life cycle of coal. The results show that the externalities of coal in SW China are estimated at USD 73.5 billion or 284.3 USD/t, which would have accounted for 6.5 % of the provincial GDP in this area in 2018. The external cost of human health accounts for 87.2% of the total external costs, of which endemic skeletal fluorosis diseases and related lung cancers have the most important impact. Our study provides a more precise estimate of externalities compared with its counterparts in other provinces in China. Therefore, several policy recommendations would be proposed to internalize the external cost.
关键词	LATE PERMIAN COALS OF-THE-ART ELECTRICITY-GENERATION ENDEMIC FLUOROSIS GUIZHOU PROVINCE POWER-PLANTS COALFIELD YUNNAN STATE ENRICHMENT
英文关键词	coal; southwestern China; life cycle assessment; external costs; endemic diseases
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Energy & Fuels
WOS类目	Energy & Fuels
WOS记录号	WOS:000559030400001
来源期刊	ENERGIES
来源机构	中国科学院青藏高原研究所
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/259790
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaonan,Wang, Licheng,Chen, Jianping,et al. Assessment of the External Costs of Life Cycle of Coal: The Case Study of Southwestern China[J]. 中国科学院青藏高原研究所,2020,13(15).
APA	Wang, Xiaonan,Wang, Licheng,Chen, Jianping,Zhang, Shouting,&Tarolli, Paolo.(2020).Assessment of the External Costs of Life Cycle of Coal: The Case Study of Southwestern China.ENERGIES,13(15).
MLA	Wang, Xiaonan,et al."Assessment of the External Costs of Life Cycle of Coal: The Case Study of Southwestern China".ENERGIES 13.15(2020).