Valuation of environmental stressors
What's the cost of chemical emissions and air pollution?
Recognizing the costs of chemicals and air pollution in policy making
EU project VALESOR aims to make major contributions to the efforts in science and policy to accomodate the economic values of environmental stressors in policy making.
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What’s the (health) cost of pollution?
Dementia, kidney disease, hypertension, asthma, chronic bronchitis, fertility loss and cancers. The list of known health impacts from air pollution and exposure to chemical substances is long and getting longer.
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About the project
Building on decades of experience in creating and using world-leading economic valuation models to support environmental policy making, VALESOR will make the economic valuation of environmental stressors standardisable, transparent, and utilisable.
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The Valesor tool
The digital VALESOR tool compiles effects on human health and monetary values in connection with environmental stress factors. The tool was launched in December 2025.
Latest news
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Practitioners’ implementation of VALESOR tool
During November, Work Package 7 workplan concluded a series of 11 on-site visits by case study visits in Paris (5–6 November) and Rome (24 – 26 November) under the supervision of Josef Spadaro and Nataša Dragić. These activities enabled the consortium to engage with local stakeholders, collect contextual data and validate analytical approaches under real-world conditions.
15 December 2025 27 October 2025 Driving Innovation in Health Cost Assessment
13 August 2025 New VALESOR review highlights knowledge gaps in assessing health risks of chemicals regulated in EU air and water directives
2 July 2025 Anthesis Represents EU Research at European Public Health Economics Conference
17 June 2025 Eastern Europe still breathes Europe's most polluted air
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