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dc.contributor.advisorAzqueta Oyarzun, Diego 
dc.contributor.authorMelo, Carlos Almiro de Magalhães
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-15T11:18:28Z
dc.date.available2013-04-15T11:18:28Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/15641
dc.descriptionSpadaro, Joseph Vito, codir.
dc.description.abstractThe economic valuation of the externalities is a relevant method when it comes to assess the physical impacts and damage costs of airborne pollution from electricity production. It is in this context that the analysis of the power station case arises. Located in the southern state of Rio Grande do (Brazil), this coal fired power plant has relatively high emission factors for particulates (PM), and carbon dioxide (CO2). As a consequence, damages to human health have been reported. The first objective of this research is to assess the external cost on health and climate change caused by the power station. The second, to evaluate the feasibility, from a social perspective, of a possible technological adaptation, capable of mitigating this impact. To this effect, a detailed analysis is presented beginning with pollutant emission. It is followed by atmospheric dispersion and quantification of the impacts and damages through the use of concentration-response functions (CRF) and unit costs. A Bottom-up approach is used, with the Uniform World Model, carried out by Joseph V. Spadaro (Spadaro, 1999). Due to the multiplicative nature of the analysis, the confidence intervals of the result are calculated assuming a lognormal distribution (uncertainty). The results of this study reveal that the damage costs are large and some mitigations measures should be required. On the other hand, the external cost generated by the power station and the minimum investment needed when facing a possible technological adaptation show a feasible change in technology, when the external costs are internalized by the power stations costs.en_US
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dc.subjectEnergía eléctrica-Producción-Aspectos ambientalesen_US
dc.subjectEnergía eléctrica-Producción-Aspectos económicosen_US
dc.subjectCentrales eléctricas-Brasil-Candiotaen_US
dc.subjectEconomía-Aspectos socialesen_US
dc.titleValoración económica de las externalidades producidas por la generación de energía eléctrica: el caso de Candiota (Brasil). Perspectivas tecnológicas y costes de la energíaen_US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisen
dc.subject.ecienciaCiencias tecnológicas
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomía
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomics
dc.subject.ecienciaCiencias sociales
dc.subject.ecienciaSociología
dc.subject.ecienciaSociology
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Fundamentos de Economía e Historia Económica
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