C. Arden Pope III (born 1954) is an American economics professor at Brigham Young University and one of the world's leading experts in environmental science. She received a B.S. from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Economics and statistics from Iowa State University in 1981. Although his research includes many papers on topics in areas where he is trained - environmental economics, resource economics, and agricultural economics - he is better known for his interdisciplinary work in environmental and health epidemiology community. He is world-renowned for his seminal work on the effects of particulate air pollution on death and health. His articles have helped build relationships between air pollution and health problems, including cancer, heart disease, and lung. The findings of this study have influenced environmental policies in the United States and Europe, contributing to the formation of emission standards for particulate matter pollution.
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Early in the Pope's career he published a paper that made him the academic foundation of environmental science and policy called "Respiratory hospital admissions related to PM10 pollution in Utah, Salt Lake, and Cache Valleys." In Utah Valley, the Geneva Steel Factory produces a large amount of particulate matter which is a by-product of fossil fuel consumption. The factory was temporarily closed. The Pope collects hospital admissions data for the time before, during and after the plant's temporary closure and the first to conclusively indicate the direct health hazard associated with atmospheric particulate matter. Asthma, mortality, and respiratory acceptance are generally two times higher when the plant operates compared to the year in which it was closed. Utah makes a very suitable natural experiment because the various valleys are included in the pollution trap of research in winter when temperature inversions inhibit pollution escape. Abstract state:
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