A5014057549- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
University of Minnesota
2017-2024
Twin Cities Orthopedics
2022-2024
University of Minnesota System
2021-2022
The Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the increase in global temperature to 1.5° or 2°C above preindustrial levels requires rapid reductions greenhouse gas emissions. Although reducing emissions from fossil fuels is essential for meeting this goal, other sources may also preclude its attainment. We show that even if fuel were immediately halted, current trends food systems would prevent achievement 1.5°C target and, by end century, threaten target. Meeting and ambitious changes as well all...
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution exposure is the largest environmental health risk factor in United States. Here, we link PM2.5 to human activities responsible for pollution. We use these results explore "pollution inequity": difference between damage caused by a racial-ethnic group and that experiences. show that, States, disproportionately consumption of goods services mainly non-Hispanic white majority, but inhaled black Hispanic minorities. On average, whites experience...
Significance Poor air quality is the largest environmental health risk in United States and worldwide, agriculture a major source of pollution. Nevertheless, has been largely absent from discussions about impacts food. We estimate quality–related States, finding that 80% 15,900 annual deaths result food-related fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution are attributable to animal-based foods. By estimating these exploring how reduce them, this work fills critical knowledge gap. Our results...
Air quality in the United States has dramatically improved, yet exposure to air pollution is still associated with 100000–200000 deaths annually. Reducing number of effectively, efficiently, and equitably relies on attributing them specific emission sources, but so far, this been done for only highly aggregated groups or a select few sources interest. Here, we estimate mortality attributable all domestic, human-caused emissions primary PM2.5 secondary precursors. We present detailed...
Sustainable development requires jointly achieving economic to raise standards of living and environmental sustainability secure these gains for the long run. Here, we develop a local-to-global, global-to-local, earth-economy model that integrates Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)-computable general equilibrium economy with Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services Tradeoffs (InVEST) fine-scale, spatially explicit ecosystem services. The integrated model, GTAP-InVEST, determines land use,...
Cropping system diversification can reduce the negative environmental impacts of agricultural production, including soil erosion and nutrient discharge. Less is known about how affects energy use, climate change, air quality, when considering farm operations supply chain activities. We conducted a life cycle study using measurements from nine-year Iowa field experiment to estimate fossil (FE) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, PM2.5-related human health impacts, other agronomic economic metrics...
Each year, millions of premature deaths worldwide are caused by exposure to outdoor air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). Designing policies reduce these relies on quality modeling for estimating changes in PM concentrations from many scenarios at high spatial resolution. However, typically has substantial requirements computation and expertise, which limits policy design, countries where most -related occur. Lower requirement reduced-complexity models exist but...
Abstract Achieving sustainable development requires understanding how human behavior and the environment interact across spatial scales. In particular, knowing to manage tradeoffs between economy, or one scale another, necessitates a modeling approach that allows these different components interact. Existing integrated local global analyses provide key insights, but often fail capture ‘meso-scale’ phenomena operate at scales global, leading erroneous predictions constrained scope of...
Abstract Exposure to air pollution is the greatest environmental health risk factor for mortality in United States and globally, which food production a major contributor. Recent studies have estimated human impacts of from terrestrial livestock crop production, but those seafood an important component many diets, are largely unknown. Here, we estimate quality-related damages wild capture fisheries via emission formation particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). We quantify annual deaths attributable...
Switchgrass is a promising bioenergy feedstock, but industrial-scale production may lead to negative environmental effects. This study considers one such potential consequence: the life cycle monetized damages human health from air pollution. We estimate increases in mortality long-term exposure fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which emitted directly ("primary PM2.5") and forms atmosphere ("secondary precursors of nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur (SOx), ammonia (NH3), volatile organic compounds...
Abstract Ambient air pollution in India accounts for 870 000 deaths per year, including 43 from road transportation. Vehicle electrification could posit a sustainable solution. However, 3/4th of India’s electric grid is powered by coal, emitting large amounts PM 2.5 , SO 2 and NO x . This leads to uncertainty regarding the health benefits distributional consequences vehicle electrification. Our results show that if vehicles made up 30% kilometers traveled, there would be 1000–2000 additional...
Abstract Highly productive agriculture is essential to feed humanity, but agricultural practices often harm human health and the environment. Using a nitrogen (N) mass-balance model account for N inputs losses environment, along with empirical based models of yield response, we estimate potential gains society from improvements in management that could reduce environmental costs maize grown US Midwest. We find monetized current are six times larger than profits earned by farmers. Air...
Abstract India’s coal-heavy electricity system is the world’s third largest and a major emitter of air pollution greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, it remains focus decarbonization control policy. Considerable heterogeneity exists between states in India terms demand, generation fuel mix, However, no analysis has disentangled expected, state-level spatial differences interactions mortality under current future power sector policies India. We use reduced-complexity quality model to...
Understanding how best to use limited land without compromising food security, health, and beneficial ecosystem functions is a critical challenge of our time. Ecosystem service assessments increasingly inform land-use decisions but seldom include the effects on air quality, largest environmental health risk. Here, we estimate value quality potential policies projected trends in United States, alongside carbon sequestration economic returns land, until 2051. We show that are first-order...
Abstract Air pollution from coal-fired electricity generation is an important cause of premature mortality in India. Although pollution-related the sector has been extensively studied, relative contribution individual units to fleet-wide burden remains unclear. Here, we find that emissions a small number drive overall mortality. Units producing just 3.5% total and constituting less than 3% capacity result 25% annual generation. This direct consequence 200-fold variation intensity across...
Understanding how economic systems and ecosystems interact across space is crucial to ensure societal needs are met without compromising environmental quality. Spatially explicit models usually describe human activities ensuing land-use dynamics at a resolution that this too coarse (typically 10-1000 regions) understand these affect many biophysical processes, including ecosystem service supply (which requires billions of 300m or finer grid-cells). Several change exist allocate changes...
Each year, millions of premature deaths worldwide are caused by exposure to outdoor air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). Designing policies reduce relies on quality modeling for estimating changes in PM concentrations from many policy scenarios at high spatial resolution. However, typically has requirements computation and expertise, which limits design, countries where most -related occur. Lower requirement reduced-complexity models exist but generally unavailable...
<p>Each year, millions of premature deaths worldwide are caused by exposure to outdoor air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>). Designing policies reduce relies on quality modeling for estimating changes in PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations from many policy scenarios at high spatial resolution. However, typically has requirements computation and expertise, which limits design, countries where most PM<sub>2.5</sub>-related...
Each year, millions of premature deaths worldwide are caused by exposure to outdoor air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Designing policies reduce these relies on quality modeling for estimating changes in PM2.5 concentrations from many scenarios at high spatial resolution. However, typically has substantial requirements computation and expertise, which limits policy design, countries where most PM2.5-related occur. Lower requirement reduced-complexity models exist but...