Estimation Of Regional Economic Losses In Yinan Caused By Environmental Pollution

The environmental pollution has a severe influence on our society and our life. It may not only cause huge losses of well-beings of our society, but set back our economic development. In order to make scientific decisions and even to achieve sustainable development, it may be a fundamental way to estimate such damages caused by pollution in form of economic losses, and to present those different degrees of damages in form of monetary figures. Estimating regional economic losses caused by environmental pollution not only helps people learn the quantitative degree of regional pollution, but also provides the government with useful information to lay out proper policies.So far, environmental economists in foreign countries have done mainly researches on the various methods to estimate economic losses caused by pollution and relative theories as well. A great many cases involving environmental pollution have been analyzed. All these efforts were made intending to improve the estimating methods day by day, In this research, a concise review of the development of estimating economic losses caused by pollution at home and abroad was made. At the same time, according to previous articles, some of the estimating methods which are now of frequent use at home and abroad was introduced, such as market estimating method, market replacing method, and so on. And then, how to apply these regional estimating methods properly was illustrated. Secondly, according to the Yinan region case in 2005, the mainly losses caused by air pollution, acid rain pollution, water pollution and solid wastes was described. On the base of researches conducted by our ancestors,â… carried out a further research into some estimating methods and calculating formula when necessary on how to estimate losses of vegetable and crop owing to declining quality caused by water pollution. And a accurate method of assessing the agricultural costs caused by air pollution was proposed in this article. Though those methods above, the total costs due to environmental pollution of Yinan was estimated, the result is 6.9725x108yuan, the amount in the GDP of Yinan is 6.89ï¼…. At last, the result of the study was analyzed, and the further expectation of the method of estimating the economic loss by environmental pollution was presented.