Methodologies for Assessing the Real Costs to Health of Environmental Stressors

The MARCHES project aims to advance methodological rigour and consistency in accounting for the welfare economic health costs of air pollution and drinking water nitrate, based on systematic reviews and by extending established approaches with disability-adjustment of the associated health burdens, while developing COPERNICUS-derived exposure modelling for integrated assessment. The project will provide guidelines for an accounting approach that can be applied universally in Europe and beyond, subject to decision makers’ requests for policy scenarios and data availability, as will be demonstrated in (three) case studies.