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Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation(Michelle L Bell, Devra L Davis, Luis A Cifuentes, Alan J Krupnick, Richard D Morgenstern and George D Thurston, Environmental Health, Jul. 31, 2008)

Today we review a paper that looks at different climate change policies, their sensitivity to health and air quality and how to translate a specific policy into quantitative estimates of health benefits. The authors conclude that short-term health benefits has to be a major consideration in choosing among various approaches to mitigate climate change.

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sharonstjoan's avatarEchoes in the Mist

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“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

– Rumi

 

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Satellite Mapping of Buildings to Augment Land Records in Delhi,India

 Delhi Development Authority (DDA) of capital of India has embarked on a project to prepare digital maps of all its land.The land of  DDA is spread over an area of more than 70,000 acres . Delhi has changed drastically in the last few decades but is not reflected in the aged land records of the authority.

To get a clearer picture of the land under its control, DDA is now going to digitise its land records and collate it with the updated Google maps. A laboratory has been established at the DDA headquarter Vikas Sadan by its systems department and the work has kicked off.

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